[MCR] Matier, Joffre Area

Up the N ridge of Matier today,

-13 deg on the glacier at 1230 hrs and the wind blowing fairly steady moderate North with scattered sky, no precip. the only significant wind transport was off the higher ridges. coverage on the skiers L glacier was a pretty consistent 250cm+ with 10 cms of variably wind affected HN sitting on the old surface. skiers R looks like it wants another 50cms or more before heading over there.

a couple of suspect sags getting onto the shoulder of Matier from the col that we threw the rope on for but otherwise easy travel up the ridge bootpacking stiff windslab, moderate sastrugi and some exposed crust (skiing was horrible coming back down)

back on Anniversary gl. the skiing was actually not too bad and the ridge above the cabin was ok, better than expected, the F res HN is sitting on a 6cm bulletproof crust at that elevation and as long as you dont hit any wind exposed spots it was pretty fun. wouldnt want to bang your head on that crust though.

the only activity that we saw was old with the exception of a sz2.5 on the N side of the Cayoosh valley, in one of the SW asp start zones above Duffey Lk, the slab looked like it pulled right to ground cover and was more recent than anything else we saw, it was a long way off though. didn't see any movement in the recent wind slab or have any results with skiing.

by the time we headed back down the track at 1545 it was snowing s-1 and was pretty much socked in.

Mike Wilson
ASG

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