[MCR] Rockies, Popes Peak

Subject: [MCR] Rockies, Popes Peak
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:57:13 -0600
My fellow Mountain Guide, Steve Holeczi, and I went to take a look at the skiing the left hand Narao Gully today, April 27th. Great skinning up on a supportive crust in the morning in the forest (we didn't use, or have, ski crampons). We chose to give the Narao Gully a miss given that a slab had avalanched out of the right hand gully in the last few days. The crown looked to be one and a half meters at the deepest and the slab failed pretty much from one side of the gully to the other. We continued on up valley for the Popes Peak tour. Felt like winter in the upper valley and we had good dust on crust skiing. Moist snow in the forest on the way down, but the crust remained supportive. A good day.

Happy trails,

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

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The Narao Gullies

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Slab out of the right hand gully

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the steep pitch with our surface sloughs

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