Last week I realized I had an unbooked weekend coming up so I asked Skyler if he was interested in a weekend of peak bagging and couloir skiing. The idea was to bag a bigger peak on Saturday, stay at Mosquito Creek that night and then do a quick couloir mission before heading back to Calgary at a reasonable time.

At 3394m, Mount Hector definitely meets the requirements for 'bigger' peak. This was great because I like climbing tall, pointy mountains, but sucks because we were coming from Calgary Saturday morning and neither Skyler nor I really felt like the misery of an alpine start. In the end, we decided to risk a later start hoping that the weather would stay cool enough to keep the snow from warming up too much.