[MCR] Aberdeen

Subject: [MCR] Aberdeen
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 23:44:40 -0600
Aug 19 - climbed the glacier route on Mt. Aberdeen today with Lisa P.

Awesome alpine day - clear and cool all day, with a nice bit of warmth in the sun. Fresh snow crunching under the crampons, no wind. Just great.

Storm snow starts to accumlate above 3000 meters, where we walked through 10-15 cm of rapidly settling fresh snow. Aberdeen's summit is 3100 meters, but there looked to be an increasing amount of snow on the higher peaks like Temple, Deltaform and Hungabee. Peaks below 3000m looked mostly dry. Snow in the shade stayed cool and dry today, although the sun warmed things up and we saw lots of rockfall in sun exposed gullies in the afternoon. South facing rock was melting off well.

Route in great shape. Lower glacier step is ice with a frozen trace of snow, the upper part of the glacier was excellent travel on steep snow all the way.

This weekend should be awesome!

Grant Statham