[MCR] Howsons 23 March 11

Subject: [MCR] Howsons 23 March 11
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:05:22 -0700
A new line was skied for the first time yesterday. Lake Bowl overlooks the summer floatplane landing on the Upper Burnie Lake. It is an E facing steep 800 m line that requires skiing a deeply incised gully in the lower part. The upper part are steep rolls underneath the rock faces of Lakehead Peak.

The snowpack is mostly well settled. There has been some very low density snow that continues to be very slippery underfoot and could be a problematic layer once buried. Otherwise, we are concerned about cornice falls and rather large and fast sluffs in the steep terrain we have been skiing.

Today it snowed in the high alpine only and there was quite a bit of wind transport from the ESE. Several large icefalls did not trigger slabs, but cleaned out the slopes below nonetheless.

The snow continues to provide very good skiing in all shaded aspects while direct sun exposed areas have a crust.


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Christoph Dietzfelbinger
Mountain Guide

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