We descended the north glacier of Aberdeen with three lowers/rappels on the upper headwall and a another four on the glacier tongue.
A fine walk in the sky.
Barry Blanchard
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Friday, September 3, 2010
[MCR] Rockies, traverse of Haddo Peak to Mt Aberdeen
NIck Rapaich and I guided a traverse of Haddo Peak to Mt Aberdeen today, Sept 3. The storm snow of earlier this week did nothing but good things for this trip. A lot of firm footing in spongy snow on the ice fields and glacier that lead up to the Haddo/Sheol col (accessed from surprise valley). The east ridge of Haddo peak was holding snow on the north side, but dry on its spine and southern flank. Ankle to boot top snow on the glacier leading to Mt Aberdeen granted good footing from the Haddo/Aberdeen col.