a large group. snow was quite mushy with little signs of a freeze
overnight. Snowpack was quite mushy where the snowpack was 1 metre or
less. Difficult travel.....
Rainy in the am but clearing later with moderate to strong gusty
winds at upper elevations. A few centimeters of new snow on the rocks
above 2600 metres. Higher up on the big peaks there is a lot of new
snow. There is certainly more snow on Athabasca now than last year at
the same time, and more than a week ago.
We from a 3rd parth of an ice avalanche off the smaller seracs on
the right of the Silverhorn which are visible in the picture. this
was supposedly a few days ago.
As well at almost exactly 500pm a few of us witnessed a good size
2-2.5 avalanche off of the Silverhorn route. Good air-born powder
cloud and debris to the bottom of the Nunatak left of Silverhorn.
Fracture line is about 2/3rds the way up the face.
Looks like some other rain triggered activity here and there on the
drive back to Jasper.
Peter Amann.
Peter Amann
Jeremy Mackenzie
pamann@incentre.net