Last 3 days in the Icefields. June 21 was a very warm day, doubt it
froze the night before .
June 22 rained quite hard much of the night till mid morning,
clearing later in day. A couple of interesting sluffs yesterday. One
surface point release on approach to Skyladder right before getting
onto glacier. Another one noted today same area but out of the rocks.
Numerous surface sluffs on east, west and south aspects starting
around 2600m. Also noted some good sized sluffs on the A2 ice face area.
+2 @ 04:30 this morning. went up to Boundary peak via north glacier.
About a 4cm crust held weight for 60% of the time, under this is
isothermal snow. (Stick to the old track)
Descent down north side snow patch had breakable crust and again..
isothermal beneath. (slope east of normal descent has sluffed out in
the last few days)
This time of year I would usually be looking for the snow patches for
easy travel but it just isn't there yet.
Did see a party heading to the north face on June 21st, but they were
still an hour from the base at 0800am.
For the big peaks I would say get up real early, climb in the dark,
be down early......a week of stable weather should help things out a
lot as well. Oh yes there is a pretty good moon right now..
Peter Amann
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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