12 noon we dropped, surprisingly, into dry snow top to bottom and OK
conditions on Miner's Gully/aka Canmore Couloir today.
If you want to use the sturdy tree to get over the cliff band bring a
30m rope (mine was 15m...). Marco's strategy of bumsliding must have
been more attractive with 40cm low density snow for a landing. The
twig I used as an anchor for the (repositioned) cordelette might not
last much longer, see attached. Or go the long way around.
Tom
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Tom Wolfe
Mountain Guide ACMG/IFMGA
Canmore, AB
twolfe@sawback.com