[MCR] Tonquin and Jasper

Subject: [MCR] Tonquin and Jasper
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:16:56 -0600
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
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