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Near the end of the trail through the canyon, there's a few steep rolls to get up out of it onto slopes to climber's left.More interesting names.Mount Hector looms to the east with Little Hector on the left.St. Nicholas at left, Olive in the distance.A large group on the lower slopes of Mount Gordon with Des Poilus and Collie in the distant bg.Mount Baker rises to the left (note the skiers at bottom left?) with Tilly Point at center and Trapper Peak just to its right.Here we are traversing under St. Nicholas' west face with Gordon on the right and Olive at center.Great skin track up the terrain trap that is the Bow Hut / Glacier approach route. Vulture Peak looms way off in the distance.Final few meters of ascent through thin snow.View west from the Olive (L) and St. Nicholas (oos R) with Mount Gordon at center.Mount Forbes with the Lyells to the right of its summit - well, four of the five Lyells anyway! From L to R, Walter, Ernest, Edward and Rudolph.Summit view looking over Crowfoot and Balfour (L), the twin summits of Olive (C) with Thomson, Portal and Jimmy Simpson on the right.Looking up hwy 93 towards Murchison with Thompson on the L, Patterson and Jimmy Simpson at center and Weed, Observation on the R.More interesting names.Views towards Rhondda and Ayesha (L) from the col.TJ and Ben on the summit of Vulture Peak.Wow! There's the king of the Wapta - Mount Balfour rises dramatically in the distance.Mount Temple rises above the Waputik Glacier that we used for our exit to Balfour Creek / Hector Lk.TJ and Ben follow a well-worn skin track up the headwall above the Bow Hut that gives access to the Wapta Icefield.The double summit of Mount Olive with a major couloir splitting the two summits, that can be skied in good conditions
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