Excellent mid-winter conditions persist on shaded aspects.
Professor Falls -- fat, blue and dry. Continued above Professor's to
Sea of Vapours last week but got scooped. Facetted snowpack, 50-70cm
deep, mostly good travel on the avalanche path.
Junkyards (Sunday) -- fat, blue and dry.
Sea of Vapours (yesterday): -11C at the car in the morning, -1 at 5pm.
It's in excellent condition for its grade. No rock gear required for
the short (M4ish?) traverse. The approach trail is no fun, icy and
treacherous -- if you're comfortable traversing the start zones of the
bowl above Professor's this is a much nicer way of getting to the
Terminator Wall right now. About 7cm new snow with little wind
transport evident.
Regards,
Tom Wolfe, MG
Canmore, AB
twolfe@sawback.com
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