Hello Everyone,
Up
until the past few days of wet weather, the conditions have been quite
good on southerly and west facing alpine rock routes and ridges and much
of the alpine is showing signs of coming into respectable shape for
this time of the year.
Primary candidates have been the West Ridge and south
facing routes on Tupper and the west facing routes on Mt. MacDonald as
of the last few weeks with up to a half dozen ascents on each. Snow
was present within 25 minutes walk from the crossing at Connaught Creek
to the Herdman Couloir approach (as of June 17th); facilitating good
travel on firm packed avalanche debris to approach the west routes on
MacDonald. Expect some deeper foot pen in rain saturated or shallower
snow pack areas.
Snowline at the Fidelity is 1900 meters and roughly the same in Mt.Revelstoke Park.
Roger's Peak in the Hermitt drainage is looking good as well as a few other classic snow and ice objectives in the Asulkan.
With improving alpine conditions and intact
infrastructure, the Roger's Pass is a good place to enjoy the high
country with the promising forecast this week.
Best Regards,
