Mt Waterman Tour

In addition to the leaders, Mark Goebel and Pete Matulavich, six participants: Mad Doody, Paul Harris, Tony Bird, Bahram Manahedgi, David Baron and Ron Geiger attended on a day between storms, and just hours before the next big El Nio blast would sweep over the southland mountains. At the start of the week we were wondering if there would be enough snow, but the first of many February storms gave us plenty of snow, and it was mostly a packed powder surface.

We toured up the traditional east ridge route under a thick cloud layer with a light mist falling. Although we were out of the wind, a loud roar similar to crashing ocean waves could be heard coming up the south slopes throughout the day.