Hector South Peak Roadside Ridge Bowl

<p>Our group skied a single lap of the largest roadside bowl of Hector South Peak from the top. Instead of skiing the xmas trees in the runout we crossed over to the lower glade area of the Apollo Bowl summer trail and skied the rest of the way fall line to the road. 2700-2600m had thin snow and lots of sharks, skiing was good but you never knew when or how many rocks you were about to hit. We did ski on the ridge here in order to have better eyes on the group, so there is a chance fall line in the bowl had better snow (it also have 2 low point mini terrain traps in it). 2600-2300 held deep bottomless pow. From 2300m we traversed skiers right to enter the lower half of the glades in the area, the snow was again deep pow until 2050m where the bush starts to show and the snow gets thin. The bottom 200m is still skiable but it's "tips up and speed down" skiing to avoid snow covered deadfall. Lots of parties over in Apollo Bowl today. Some questionable skin tracks are now showing up too. One goes up the largest of the 3 south facing "terrain trap creek slopes". People have been skiing these slopes a lot this week too but there is little need to skin up this way. If buried in an avalanche here you would be pushed into the creek and likely buried very deep. There is a very well established skin track to access the area to the south of the creek drainage, which is on most maps, and it has a few more options to limit some exposure.</p>

Terrain Ridden

Alpine slopes, Mellow slopes, Dense trees, Steep slopes, Sunny slopes, Open trees.

Snow Conditions

Deep powder, Powder.

Weather Conditions

Cold, Cloudy, Sunny.