Arrowsmith via Main Gully

The GPS track of our route. We hit the snow
15 minutes into the route

It been quite some time since I've been out in the mountains on a spring trip. Young Al and I have had our eye on the Main Gully on Mount Arrowsmith for a year or so. As you can see in the Google Earth screenshot, it's an incredibly direct line up to the summit with good access up high logging roads.

It took us 4 hours to the summit with a fair amount of post holing through soft snow into tree wells and voids under boulders. The snow in the gully at the top was soft but we weren't sinking in past our shins so it was fast travelling.

In all, it was 6 hours return. We stayed overnight in Whiskey Creek at my good buddy, Darrel's house so we could get a 5AM start. As it turns out, if the conditions are good you can get the first ferry off of Hornby, get up to the summit and down and back to Hornby on a Friday.