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The trail is faint but the path through the forest is surprisingly wide for most of the White Man Pass trail.The vegetation can be thick on avy paths.Mount Morrison at right with Cone and Turner just to its left. Owl Peak at mid left along the ridge from Morrison.Mount Assiniboine with Eon and Aye to the left of it and Mount Gloria and Aurora in front.Mount Birdwood is impressive from almost any angle.Mount Sir Douglas is buried in clouds beyond Mount Warre.Looking down the gully over the cliffbands.A nice morning walk through the forest along the Spray River.These Mylar balloons are showing up everywhere in the backcountry nowadays.Mounts Warre and Vavasour don't get many ascents. I scrambled them from the Spray Lakes Valley at left with KC in 2014.From L to R summits include, Mount Assiniboine, Aurora Byng, Turner, Morrison, Spray Lakes, Shark, Smuts, Birdwood, Warre, Vavasour and Mount Sir Douglas in clouds beyond.Not quite there yet. The summit block is easily ascended by skirting it on the left before taking a direct line up.Glacier LilyOur escape across Currie Creek. Right where Phil is the water was deeper than my 120cm poles could reach. And that log is slick too.The gully gets a bit manky about mid way.Using grassy slopes to ascend.We got a bit silly lower down as we were sick of traversing the slick vegetation. We eventually backed off the muddy slabs and traversed further west.Looking over the col between White Man and Leval towards outliers of Mount Queen Mary.Mount Currie is in sight rising at right. We still have a long ways to go into the valley at distant left before tackling the SE slopes.Lots of avy paths to choose from.
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