Kevin and I had last minute plans to summit Pelion before we both had to leave for the summer, I’ve read trip reports of people skiing in and summiting within the day, or even doing the whole Tantalus traverse in a day! However, we wanted to take our time so we loaded up our enormous packs with plans to spend the night and summit early in the morning. Looking back it would have been a lot easier to take super light day packs and just go for it in a day.
Just under 200m from the summit we decided to turn around, the ski down was very icy but we still had a long enjoyable ski back to camp, and back to the river where we had to switch back to walking.
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