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Trapper is much harder than it appears. There's significant objective hazard as you ascend the right hand avy slope under some giant cornices.Ben and Steven follow me up the lower flank of Peyto's south face. Thompson looms on the left and Habel on the right.I've been on a LOT of peaks in this photo. Many great memories as I peer across the ocean of ice and snow and rock.We abandon the skis and start boot packing.St Nicholas, Olive, Balfour and Gordon.The sun is out now and we are boot packing up the steepish rubbly south slope of Peyto.Lot's of exposure off the summit.Mistaya is a beautiful peak. Murchison in the background.Mount Thompson with Hector in the background.Looking down the moraine at the long slog ahead - some of it will be in the dark.Now the fun part begins!Ben raps the SE corner.A steep pano from the ledge, looking west north and east. The false summit of Peyto on the far left and the approach to our ledge on the far rightSkiing back down the Peyto Glacier in lengthening shadows.Approaching Peyto with Baker, Tilly and Trapper on the left.Looking down Peyto's north face from our ledge.Baker looms over Tilly and Trapper on the right.Looking over our tracks to Baker at Des Poilus, Collie, Habel, Rhondda and even the Goodsirs on the far left.Mount Baker with Mount Ayesha to the left. Two of the Wapta's sexiest peaks.Recondite is the pointy peak at left, Willingdon, Crown and Tower on the far right in the distance.
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