The direct route to Lookout Col follows the roly-poly terrain on climbers right adjacent to the big lateral moraine. It can be tedious work and we never seem to put in a decent track this way. So instead we opted to try one of the more central ramps which angle from lower left to upper right. You can kind of make out the ramps in this photo:
Yeah that sucked. We half climbed a waterfall, ended up too high, and had to drop down around the toe of the glacier before climbing back up to the col. Now we know. Off with the skins and down the other side into terra incognita.
Wow, it was a whole new world to us. First a long steep run into broad bowl that was bordered on one side by some very skiable looking broad chutes. Then we made our way across the gentle reaches of the lower bowl and into the trees on skiers left which mark the edge of The Ravens slide paths.
Skins on for a short climb up through the trees before popping out high up on the Ravens, giving a unique view down into the Asulkan Valley. It looked like a ski run at the local resort.
Boot top powder all the way down from here and then the way too familiar track back to the railbed.
A grand day out. Why haven't we done this before?
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