After a sunday morning lie in we headed on skis up a small outcrop to the south of the hut beach to get to the main Sorling Beach. The main beach had two huge male elephant seals and a large flock of cape petrels (I counted 90 in total). We climbed up the ridge coming off Ellerbeck peak the snow conditions were really beautiful – hard pack well frozen.

It was a hot climb (hence the shorts!) but we wanted to get up to the ridge right above the glacier – meanwhile the hard top was starting to get mushy so after a few photos it was time to get in a few downhill runs. We got in another 5 runs or so on a smaller section it took around 5 minutes to make the climb and 30 seconds to get down even with long sweeping turns to make it more worthwhile.

Rob headed back to the hut while Tommy and I headed further south along the beach for the glacier face. The brash ice was piled up on the beach we found a great little lunch spot in amoungst it all unfortunately it didn’t calve with us watching. After Tommy did a few minutes of ice ‘climbing’ on a piece of glacier wall we headed on back to the hut. That evening I think we all reflected on the events of Sept 11 10 years ago.

A great relaxing day of skiing and sightseeing and our last full one of holidays as monday we will be picked up by the boats.