Daily vert: 1275
Total so far: 5665
After yesterdays successful stroll around the Blackcomb Glacier, today we decided to head a little further a field and go over to Decker. I suspect we might have been the first group of the year to make it out that far... (except for the group who were summiting Pattison ahead of us... but they came over from the lower 7th route... doesn't count).
We started off with the usual skin up the 7th road, then after keeping our skins on for the mini descent of the Horstman Glacier, enjoyed some nice turns on the Blackcomb Glacier. We then skinned all the way to the Spearhead col, and enjoyed the nice sunny run down to Circle Lake. After skirting around the edge of the lake (we weren't sure how frozen it was) we took the long route up Decker, right over by it's western shoulder, in order to avoid the very unfilled in crevasses on the usual glacier ascent route. After a very enjoyable shred down Main Chute we skinned up one last time to the bottom of Disease Ridge, rather than take the lower traverse, as one of our group was a split boarder. A beautiful sunset and very nice snow in Lakeside bowl made for a great finish to a great day.
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