[MCR] Rogers Pass / Illecilleweat Glacier - March 25

Went up the glacier up on the ridge behind Mount Lookout.

Good skiing in sheltered areas above 2400m, below a mix of supportive, melting and breakable crusts. Some isolated pockets of hard shallow windslabs, which were easy to skier-trigger on the approach to Lookout notch.

We found the surface hoar down 80-90cm on the glacier in a sheltered area below Mt. Lookout at about 2400m. About 2.5 - 3m of snow on the glacier in this elevation.

 

Still a great day to be out, though a few cm of fresh wouldn't hurt.

 

 

Thomas Exner

Mountain Guide (IFMGA / ACMG)

 

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