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An older photo taken with a throw-away camera.    The image was taken from Balfour Hut on the Wapta Traverse, looking up at Balfour Mountain.    We had skied across the icefields from Peyto Lake to Peyto Hut.   We skied down Vulture Col to the hut.    The next day we were bearing south and climbing through Balfour High Col.   Note the recent avalanche below the icefall.    On our way up to the col, I triggered a slide and fortunately no one was caught in it.    We spent the next night in a tent on the glacier.

Today we can take much better images with compact cameras and mobile phones, but the old images still bring up vivid memories/

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