Just did the Neve traverse yesterday, and overall conditions are pretty
good. We did not stop long enough for snow obs, wx obs, etc...so here
are just some general obs on conditions.
Last weeks avalanche
cycle was quite extensive across the traverse, most major slopes had
visible wide crowns of ~1m. Lots of debris in drainage bottoms. Now
about 20-30cms filling in the old slide paths. Made me feel better
about crossing certain slopes, like dropping into Ring Creek under the
Gargoyles and going down to Garibaldi Lake as all of the paths had
slid. Temps stayed quite cool, and we didn't really experience any
wet/heavy snow the whole day.
The only real snow
bridges/crevasses encountered were crossing under Garibaldi towards the
sharks fin, but the one bridge we had to cross was quite fat, and
things were quite well filled in.
On the trail out from the
lake, things still have good coverage. Snow conditions got quite
horrible around the 4-5km mark, and serious injury seemed quite
possible on the death cookie covered trail. No rocks until the last km
of trail, and then icy pine needles and rocks to the bottom.
Evan Stevens
Mountain Guide
evan_stevens@xxxxxxxxxxx
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