Pete breaks a very nice track through the cornice windlip seperating the col from the Gothics Glacier. No-one seems interested in venturing and trying out whiteout navigation despite the very good maps we have. In fact there's a remarkable amount of wigging out and wanting to go back down immediately. Such is the nature of travelling with large groups. Not everyone is happy hanging out on a windy col and I get no time to even discuss the possibility of going up to Damon or to trying out skiing some interesting steep ramps framing Friendship Col.

I've memorized the clear-day shots of the Echo Glacier from the very useful climbing book and elect to ski down the glacier, somewhat rescuing the wasted effort of getting to Friendship Col and getting 400m of beautiful powder. The rest of the day is then spent in the trees yet again thwarted from high-alpine.