Thank you for your patience while we retrieve your images.

Vern Dewit Photography

Home»Trip Report Albums»Banff National Park»Egress Waputik Glacier via Balfour Creek & Hector Lake (Click to Load Album)

Looking back west from the col at Daly, Niles and Lilliput on the right.

Now "all" we have to do is continue skiing down lower moraines before contouring to the right and exiting via Hector Lake.

Skiing around the south end of Lilliput under its west face. Daly at right.

Vulture and Crowfoot.

Looking for our exit in the days before GPS on cellphones...

"The Tunnel"

Skiing across Hector Lake.

Rounding the south end of Lilliput.

Skiing down Balfour Creek to Hector Lake.

Finding the sun as we cross Hector Lake - Mount Hector rises over 1600 meters above us on the upper left.

Lilliput's impressive west face belies the easy north ridge route to the summit.

Skiing the Waputik Glacier.

Looking back at the complex terrain under the east face of Balfour.

Skiing across Hector Lake.

Skiing the Waputik Glacier.

At hwy 93, looking back at our exit.

Olive and Vulture.

Rounding the south end of Lilliput.

Time to see if our route will go! We had no beta on this exit - thankfully it would work out.

Exiting the "Tunnel".

© Vern Dewit Photography