Pretty good travel on the glacier with about 140cm near the toe of
the bow glacier, and over 2m on the ski slope above the hut. Over 240
up high in general. Climbed Olive on the 29th, reasonable on the
ridge, footsteps holding. Went to the first bump on St Nicolas and
turned around. Chucking small rocks and snowballs onto the south
slope triggered fast moving sluffs on the steep face.
Climbed Thompson on the 30th and travel was OK on the snow patches on
the ridge. a bit punchy around the rocks. Still huge cornices on the
summit ridge, Glacier was good travel
From Peyto hut there is about 80cm to 140cm on the glacier leading
to the ramp and requires a wide birth to avoid slots that were probed
but not visible. Once on the ramp travel was good to the bare ice.
Lots of activity on all aspects. However did not observe any recent
slab activity.
Cornices falling every where. It hasn't frozen in a long time.
Peter Amann
Peter Amann
Mountain Guiding
Box 1495, Jasper AB, T0E 1E0
780 852 3237
cell 780 931 2521
www.incentre.net/pamann/
pamann@incentre.net
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