[MCR] Mt Aberdeen North Glacier

Subject: [MCR] Mt Aberdeen North Glacier
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:40:33 -0600
Climbed the North Glacier of Mt Aberdeen yesterday. A little bit of a freeze: ice forming on puddles below the glacier. There was rockfall off the climber's left edge of the ice tounge, we approached for climber's right. Crossed the bergshrund on climber's left. A strange drum skin of ice, separated from the true ice face by several centimeters, in places; had to chop through it to get real screws.

We descended the gully to the south east. The valley bottom trail out of Paradise Valley has been closed since the last time I was there, seems the way to go now is to head up valley to the gain the Giant Steps trail and then climb to the Lake Annette trail, would have saved us several fordings of paradise creek and some bushwacking.

Barry Blanchard
Mountain Guide
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