[MCR] K Country snow

Out for a wander today, making it to about 2700 m on Burstall Peak.

Overall only a few cm's of snow on the ground but that makes for some slippery scrambling. We avoided areas with bad runouts below in case we went for a little slide and decided against going the final little way along the narrow ridge to the summit.

Of note is that in isolated windloaded pockets on smooth terrain we have definitely reached threshold depth where there is now enough snow to avalanche. A slab avalanche wouldn't be very wide but if it took you off your feet in the wrong place it would be nasty.

Friends - I do have some - report that they triggered several micro-slabs in the Highwood Pass area yesterday, where some pockets have up to a meter of snow in them from windloading.

Mark Klassen

Mountain Guide

www.alpinism.com

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