the summit at noon. There was a large wind event on 15 January that
stripped the faceted snowpack off many exposed areas. Many more
krummholz trees and rocks showing now than in mid-January. We saw
several fracture lines from slabs that probably released with that wind
event. We saw no new avalanches and there was no cracking and whumpfing.
We found a hard, but sudden planar shear 47 cm down on a crust/ facet
layer. The wind was moderate from the NE. In the afternoon, it started
snowing a bit more heavily. 163 cm at the lodge, more than 300 in the
alpine. Good skiing.
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Christoph Dietzfelbinger
IFMGA/ UIAGM Mountain Guide - Bear Mountaineering and the Burnie Glacier Chalet
Box 4222 Smithers, B.C. V0J 2N0 Canada
tel. 250-847-3351/ fax 250-847-2854
info@bearmountaineering.ca www.bearmountaineering.ca
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