Alexandru Romanciuc

Alexandru Romanciuc

Sunday 2 August 2020

Markhor

                                          Markhor Mountain December 19th 2015



I was always thinking to do Markhor Mountain as the classic Markhor-Needle traverse but Ben suggested to go up on it on skis following the route from John's ski book so we decided to go and give ti a try with Ben,Steven ad a friend of mine Alin.

For some reason we thought the parking starts pass the parking for Needle, so we drove a bit further and as we pretty much passed Markhor we looked back at the maps and had to drive back to Needle Parking.

The parking wasn't too busy and the workers cleared a space for us so we could park the car so we won't be in their way and soon we started our way up into the forest.




We pretty much followed the ridge which had some steep spots and soon the second group caught up to us, it was a BCMC group that was going up to the summit too.






Soon we got out of the forest and started to see some views and finally the summit of Markhor Peak.









The last to the summit was pretty steep and just 3 of us went to the summit while Alin was waiting and taking photos of us where we left our skis.












After few photos we started our way back down to our skis.

We did 2 laps since the snow was really good and the other BCMC group already skied few laps in the face which looked really good so we decided to do the same.












For our way back down we followed the description on the map we had, there is only one entry spot which you can;t really miss after what the terrain was great for a bit and once we got back in the forest that's when things started to get more interesting, some deadfalls and we were just following the tracks from the BCMC group that we hoped that they know the way and after a bit of not so pleasant skiing we all got back down safely.










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