Warm day on the East slope of the Rockies and yet we kinda froze in the strong
Chinook coming from the NW. We climbed most of “The Doors of Perception” but
bailed right to easier ground when we got too cold to hang around the belays.
Lots of small rocks being blown around by the wind.
Good conditions all over the Coire Dubh basin. The ice is still there and
plastic. The rock is mostly dry. The snow is still surprisingly unconsolidated
in places and mostly only firm in the old steps or on the hard windslabs. Hard
to imagine an avalanche there before the next storm unless it gets really warm
and you are in a very solar heated south facing corner of the bowl. (Where it
is probably already dry:)
The descent is dry but as nasty and as long a pounding as ever.
Larry Stanier
ACMG Mountain Guide
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