ski tour: simpson pass

Touring loop up to Simpson Pass and returning via Sunshine Village

We started at the Sunshine Village carpark, heading out along Healy Creek, passing through several large avalanche run-offs, before reaching the Simpson Pass turn off. From the turn off you’re heading south for about a a kilometre up a drainage, then it flattens out as you reach Simpson Pass.

 

Touring along under the bluffs above Simpson Pass

 

 

Lunch time tongue poking

 

We ate some lunch at Simpson Pass, then headed up around under the bluffs above Simpson Pass until a reaching a weakening in the cliff-line, then up onto the Sunshine Meadows.

 

Sunball (aka Pinwheel) – it was warming up after a colder spell

 

 

Jumping for joy once we reach Sunshine Meadows

 

You hit Sunshine Village at the top of the Wawa Chairlift, then ski down through Sunshine Villlage back to the car. It’s a nice easy day tour with fairly limited exposure to avalanche risk.