[MCR] Polar Circus

Subject: [MCR] Polar Circus
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:02:06 -0800
Guided Polar Circus yesterday. Good travel up the snow on avalanche slide 
surfaces once you are in the gully. Established trail to turn the Pencil (which 
fell off some time ago). There was a small cornice collapse off of climbers 
left 
hand cliffs on the last tier. Chunks fell down to the centre and left side and 
away from the climbing line on the right. I say small because I was on the 
climb 
in the late 80s when a big cornice collapsed from the same cliff edge and it 
left 
several pickup truck sized craters in the snow slope below.

Route is in good shape with most of it presenting new ice surfaces.

Happy trails

Barry Blanchard
Mountain Guide
Yamnuska Mountain Adventures