Solitaire Ski Peak in very strong winds, but equally good skiing.
Several large avalanches ran off Hut Peak and Polemic Glacier. There is
a crust/ facet layer 90 cm down that produces sudden planar shears. Ski
cutting did not produce much in the way of propagation, but the load is
growing rapidly. 12 cm of new snow this morning and another 12 tonight,
but probably much more was blown away.
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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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