are 140 cm of snow at the lodge (1030 m). At 1470 m on the Solitaire
Meadows, there are 260 cm of snow. We dug a test pit and found moist
snow at 0 degrees 130 cm down. The air temperature was -18 and the snow
surface -22. There are many crusts embedded in the moist snow, but we
only found shears in the upper layers. There has been some reverse
loading out of the E the last few days and we saw a few size 2
avalanches that had run on W aspects. Otherwise, there was older debris
from the rain event last week and one size 2 on a steep rocky south
aspect. Ski cutting of steep and often windloaded pockets had very small
results. We think the stability is fair in the alpine and good below,
but our observations are still limited.
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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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