Trip Report - Mt. Hector, South Ridge

I'd been a bit of a lazy potato since getting back from the 'Stans a month ago, so it felt good to get out to the mountains this past weekend. We hit the Icefields Parkway for a snowshoe adventure up the south ridge of Mt. Hector. Unfortunately, on the way up, every step was a punishing bit of trailbreaking, as your snowshoes acted like shovels clearing a foot deep driveway. We gained about 550m of elevation before giving up at a high point, exhausted, and still a bit away from the summit. And on the way down, it was just puking snow on us, while I fell or tumbled down slopes more times than I could count. But hey, we didn't die in an avalanche, so there's that, right?