Bow Glacier still pretty much snow covered to the bottom of the head wall (where you enter the glacier 10 min above the Bow Hut) - some bare spots are showing higher up. Peyto Glacier is bare even beyond the level of the hut. Travel conditions were decent on 7/29 with the exception of the odd and random swampy patch (knee deep!). Today, 9 degrees at 4 AM at the Peyto Hut under mostly clear skies overnight - glad we were done with the snowy part of the trip and walked out the "weeping" Peyto Glacier. Somebody must have done some work on the trail going down the steep morraine between the research station and the Peyto Glacier outflow - nice little steps in the steeper spots - thanks!
Wind scoop below Mt. Thompson in great shape for crevasse rescue and cramponing excercises but beware of the corniced sections!
Jorg Wilz
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