[MCR] Rockies, Mt Athabasca

Subject: [MCR] Rockies, Mt Athabasca
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 13:52:12 -0600
A regal ascent of  Mt Athabasca yesterday, May 24th, Victoria Day. Great travel conditions up and down on the "magic" crust. Its supportive almost everywhere and hard enough to require a fair amount of step cutting while we traveled on boot soles. Great cramponing after we strapped them on.

A party of three ascended the Silverhorn and descended via the Ramp route. We saw a dozen skiers, over our three days, enjoying great corn down low and dust on crust up high.

Happy trails,

Barry Blanchard
Mountain Guide
Yamnuska Mountain Adventures
www.barryblanchard.ca
www.yamnuska.com




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