if you are going below about 10,000ft things are dry. Climbed Outpost
peak above the Wates hut via the standard glacier route. the glacier
is crevassing up and moving left which forces you up and left. Did 3
pitches of moderate ice to 50deg (for short sections.) upper glacier
in good shape.
The gully that accesses the glacier has had a major stream zipping
through it earlier in the summer. I think the water course has
changed with the receding glacier. Dry on our day, with a good
freeze. Upper sections where well bridged and the new snow was nice
and frozen for the ascent. Left abalokovs for the descent.
A party on Paragon reported snow in the upper third of the route
spattered on the rocks.
Macdonnel looked caked up for the last 1000ft. East faces were
looking dry up to about10,000ft. Bennington had some snow on the
upper third of the east ridge. Cavell looked pretty white for the upper 1000ft.
All pics taken on Aug 14th
Peer
Peter Amann
Mountain Guiding
Box 1495, Jasper AB, T0E 1E0
780 852 3237
cell 780 931 2521
www.incentre.net/pamann/
pamann@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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