"Ski tour via the south ridge. Bootpacked the south ridge from the Andromeda-Androlumbia col then skinned to the summit block were we used crampons again. We skied from the false summit to the toe of the glacier. Nice run down! Corn on the lower glacier. " — mike_rogers81 • May 22, 2021

"My first 11,000er! Led by Alex Joseph and friends. Erich MacKenzie, Monica Hardy, Robert Maybury, Robert Herbst, and Babette Nijssen Beauty of a day. Woke at 2:30 in parking lot and were off about 3:30am ... 9 hours out and back. Email notes from Alex Joseph: Bring it all:SkisSki cramponsBoot crampons  Recap:Weather still showing zero precip and cold overnight freeze https://www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/forecast/multimodel/athabasca-glacier_canada_5887918?fcstlength=144Plan is to sleep in parking lot on north side of highway where the hotel is Plan is to arrive there this evening 9pm ishPlan to wake up 2:30am? and be walking by 3am? Plan is to go up and avoid the seracs by going climbers left through the icefall, up the ramp, and then turning left to Andromeda S RidgeBring avy gear (to parking lot at least), glacier crevasse rescue gear, ice axe, ice screw, boot crampons, ski crampons (if you have them), headlamp, helmet, sunscreen, sunglassesPlan for 8-11 hour ascent and returnReading: https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/mount-andromeda/ https://www.explor8ion.com/2016/04/17/andromeda-mount/    http://www.peakstratagem.com/mount-andromeda https:..." — BryonHoward • Jun 5, 2020

"Wow. Another incredible (sleep deprived) weekend (3rd in 5 weeks) with awesome friends. Bedded down at 10pm in Icefields parking lot Friday evening under clear skies which was a relief from Calgary. 12C and actually got an hour sleep (better than Hood and felt better than Pyramid) and we were up at 1:45am. It was 6C and cloud. Started up the Athabasca Glaicer about 2:45am and was surprised no headlamps on glacier and no one in the parking lot...did we miss the memo? Started raining and none of us had rain gear and started to wonder "Is it summer?" Moved up fast skinning on the ice and then started across snow patches which were actually slush and in some cases rivers. Monica got a double booter which under normal ski circumstances would have ended it right there. Nearing the first bench we had to find a way around a lake. Group discussion with the very isothermal snow we decided probably not the best idea on the crevasses. So turned around and back at car at 6:03am. Weird to be taking ski boots off that early on a Saturday morning. Pondered what next and fixed a broken rivet on Babette's boot. 30 minutes later was enroute for ski #2 at Parker Ridge. Skied from t..." — alexjoseph • Jun 1, 2019

"22km with 1,700m gain in 7hrs return. Clear skies and solid overnight freeze, but very windy. Quite a few parties everywhere on Athabasca/Columbia glaciers. Met at least 3 other groups on Andromeda alone." — alexp • May 20, 2019

"Another great day of skiing on the Columbia, skied right from the summit all the way to the toe of the Athabasca Glacier. S ridge is a pretty fun ski, and the turns off of the shoulder of Little Andromeda have a nice fall line." — BobbyG • May 11, 2019

"Mt Andromeda Ski (S ridge) - May 11 2019. 1650m gain 24.5km. 10 hours round trip. Currently you must walk from the far parking lot. Accessing the glacier toe was straightforward, no rivers yet. We had an excellent overnight freeze because of the clear sky! Temps were above zero until we gained the headwall. The coverage on the Athabasca Glacier was great, it's definitely better than it was last year at this time. We took the icefall route to avoid the Snow Dome seracs and it was filled in very well, there is no reason to risk the seracs at this time (it dumped twice on our trip up the icefall, and the Andromeda serac did once too - all in the dark!). Found melt-freeze conditions until about 2800m on our route - dry snow from there for the most part (some crusts on the south ridge but not quite full melt freeze yet). We bootpacked up most of the ridge since it was quite firm. The ski down from Andromeda was quite nice, although we were too early to enjoy corn snow until we reached the headwall again. Some natural slides ran onto the skin track during the day. We only saw a total of 7 other people on the entire Columbia today, strange considering the weather - on a Saturday, too. Not..." — jakefinnan • May 11, 2019

"Climbed the South Ridge of Mt. Andromeda on May 14th from a camp on the Columbia Icefield below Mt. Snowdome. Broke camp around 5:30am and left a cache of gear on the Columbia Icefield near the top of the Athabasca glacier around 6am. By 7:30 we had skinned up to the col between Andromeda and Androlumbia and by 9am we were on the summit. There was about 100 meters of scree on the ridge that had to be climbed with skis on our packs. the rest was skied. It was well worth carrying skis up to speed up the traverse across the summit ridge. A beautiful sunny day but blowing hard on the summit. We returned to our cache and skied down the Athabasca glacier arriving at the parking lot by 12 noon. The snow on the lower glacier was getting very wet and heavy. Last 300 meters to parking lot was walking." — MichaelDyck • May 14, 2018

"Climbed skyladder with nearly perfect conditions. Some creative routefinding to gain the glacier beneath the skyladder. There were some big holes with small bridges which required some delicate probing. Easy route around the schrund beneath skyladder - climbed to the top of andromeda with no difficulties. Descent route was a little interesting due to deteriorating snow quality - some sketchy front pointing downclimbing on thin slush. Rappelled over the bergschrund beneath AA col - its huge! track only includes ascent and not descent" — BobbyG • Jun 24, 2017