Skiing Cerro Electrico SE Couloir (El Chalten Patagonia)

Today we're headed up to Cerro Electrico. We're going to ski the top part of the classic face and then hopefully drop into the southeast couloir down onto Big Glacier. It's a little bit windier than expected currently so we'll see. We've got a long walk before we get to the snow so just see how the day plays out but hoping for some steep skiing up high on a classic. Getting a little higher just about out of the tree line into the alpine and hoping we find some snow soon. Trying to stay hard left here to avoid this overhead. I named, I wasn't sure if we were going to go below this or not, but I named Juan Carlo. You named the Serac? Juan Carlo? Yeah. Yeah I did not want to f*** around. You can see there's a track over there right below it but like why? Three switchbacks. That looks like, I don't know, it's not huge. It's not huge but if it fell off you'd definitely die. I'm sure it looked a lot scarier like 10 years ago. Just on the final push now up to the summit of Electrico. Kai's putting in the track and yeah we made pretty good time getting up here. It's been four hours. We can now see the summit and the ice bulge and our line down the southeast couloir goes right there so getting there. Proper summit. Getting a window on the Fitzroy. So sick. Feeling very lucky to be up here. We got a view of Fitzroy. Just tagged the summit of Electrico and now we're going to ski the southeast couloir. Yeah buddy. Nice. Well that skied beautifully. The lower section was super fun spring skiing. Upper section was pretty challenging. Weird wind buff but soft enough that you could ski fast. Oh so fun and there's so many other lines. There's just so much potential here. So the plan originally is to go up this pass and then down a south facing shot and then out back to the trail that way but it's a little warm waiting for that window up there to class us for the time so I don't know. What do you think Kai? I feel like we can climb this in like an hour and a half but now we got to ski back down the east face of Electrico which is a little warm now so maybe the bed surface will ski faster.