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Thursday, February 23, 2006

[MCR] Hudson Bay Mountain 23 Feb 06

On a field trip today, it was snowing at -13 degrees and light northerly
winds. We observed no recent avalanches. A profile at 1620 m showed a dense
snowpack with hard shears and resistant planar failures. Travel conditions
were poor on irregular hard slab.

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Christoph Dietzfelbinger, Mountain Guide
Bear Mountaineering and the Burnie Glacier Chalet
Box 4222 Smithers B.C. Canada V0J 2N0
info@bearmountaineering.ca www.bearmountaineering.ca
tel. 250-847-3351 fax 250-847-2854


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