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
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