[MCR] The Howsons on Easter 2011

Subject: [MCR] The Howsons on Easter 2011
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:33:55 -0700
There are still 200 cm of snow at the lodge. The snowpack has not been shrinking much at low elevations and growing at higher altitudes. We skied a S aspect today and found soft cold snow on the Solitaire Glacier and excellent corn below, all the way to the valley bottom. We skied down the Duodenum, and down the moraine all the way to the Burnie Glacier. It was still -6 on the summit and no warmer than 4 degrees at the lodge. We saw some older slabs, kicked a cornice that propagated rather well, and saw an icefall on the Loft Glacier that raked the slopes below but did not pull out a slab. There was a thin slab that propagated quite well, about 100 m, in steep terrain beside the Loft Glacier.

Later on, I got the first load of firewood with the snowmobile and only got stuck once (but good).

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Christoph Dietzfelbinger
Mountain Guide

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