Well today was a great day in the local backcountry visiting the winter simulator. Neil, Jeff and I were thankful for the winter tires as we broke trail in the 40cm on the highway with the Korean car, KIA. As we left Canmore, rains fell down and sprinkled our ambitions and made us think about our future. We thought we would "take a drive to check it out" and at the very worst have tea in a parking lot somewhere. Well the drive paid off and we enjoyed excellent early season powder conditions that were reminiscent of the, dare I say it 06/07 year. This is the year that climbers became skiers, people quit there jobs and the rockies turned into a mini version of the Selkirks where things were skied and mentioned after that they may never be skied again......Its on...sorta...maybe...hopefully!
Here we see Neil entering the white room for a little R and R.
Here we see Jeff and Neil digging in the snow trying to find reactive layers. Besides the storm snow instabilities we found the October rain crust at the very bottom. Note that there is over 100cm here and it is Nov 17! I will look more into this very interesting situation later this week.
1 comment:
Hey, Roos,
Good to see you're getting out there.
I was thinking we might check out the Bonnington Traverse in February.
G.
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