[MCR] Mt. Field

Subject: [MCR] Mt. Field
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:30:44 -0700

Went up to Mt. Field today with fellow guide Mike Stuart.  Travel up the road is easy with a well packed Ski Doo trail.  The 10 minute side trip into the campground near the parking lot  is well worth it to see the devastation from the Class 4 avalanche earlier this month.  About 40 cm average ski penetration  once you leave the road and start up Mt. Field.   The alders are very well covered for this time of year.  From tree line and above there are buried soft wind slabs beneath the most recent 20 cm of storm snow.  For this reason we did not ski up the final steep slopes to the summit.  The midpack  felt strong.  Ski quality was excellent all the way down to the road.

 

Marc Ledwidge MG

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