Hector

Quick report

Weather

cold, sunny

Ride Type

alpineSlopes, convexSlopes, sunnySlopes

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

crusty, hard, windAffected

Great travel conditions up to the summit col of Hector. From there it was drytooling as the glacier has pulled back from last time I was up there exposing a short but reasonably technical pitch of rock to a rap anchor. At the peak the main path to the summit has low snow but is doable with some thought. The glacier had only a small section of bare ice at the top which we skirted to the climbers left of and the crevasses were well bridged.