'Expose Yourself' Photo Comp 4th Place WINNER

Congratulations to "Kroy" for their entry entitled 'Qua Peak'

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Have a look at the 4th place winning entry below:

I  meant to post this earlier but like everything else it got pushed down the line.  I had two days left of official holiday vacation and I wanted to get out on a nice long tour. With sunny skies, moderate avi conditions, and with a high of -7C predicted for January 2, 2011 I thought it would be a great time to get out and tackle Qua peak. We managed to wrangle five people in total.

From Whitewater, we set off east along blasters ridge.  After about twenty-five minutes we stopped just opposite prospectors bowl to rip off the skins and ski our first descent to Qua creek.  It was about a 1700ft descent through a nicely gladed tree run on a south facing side.

To avoid a steeper ascent into the Qua peak basin we travelled further east towards north Qua to a slide path which allowed us to ascend to 1900m before veering south to enter Qua basin. Managed to summit Qua and skied a back down to Qua creek before climbing back to west Ymir. Great day and couldn't ask for better light for picture taking.  

Thanks Sandra, Jenn, Andrew, Sarah.