[MCR] Wapta: Bow Hut - Peyto Hut

Subject: [MCR] Wapta: Bow Hut - Peyto Hut
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 23:35:25 -0600
Did a three day Bow Lake to Peyto Lake trip 7/28 - 30. 

Bow Glacier still pretty much snow covered to the bottom of the head wall 
(where you enter the glacier 10 min above the Bow Hut) - some bare spots are 
showing higher up. Peyto Glacier is bare even beyond the level of the hut. 
Travel conditions were decent on 7/29 with the exception of the odd and random 
swampy patch (knee deep!). Today, 9 degrees at 4 AM at the Peyto Hut under 
mostly clear skies overnight - glad we were done with the snowy part of the 
trip and walked out the "weeping" Peyto Glacier. Somebody must have done some 
work on the trail going down the steep morraine between the research station 
and the Peyto Glacier outflow - nice little steps in the steeper spots - thanks!

Wind scoop below Mt. Thompson in great shape for crevasse rescue and cramponing 
excercises but beware of the corniced sections!

Jorg Wilz

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