[MCR] Rockies, Columbia Icefields.

[Public Mountain Conditions Report]

My fellow guide, Erica Roles, and I guided out of the Columbia  
Icefields Campground from Monday to Friday, October 4-8. Conditions  
continue to be good given freezing, or close to freezing, overnight  
temperatures. Great supportive travel on the Little Athabasca  
Glacier, and Boundry Glacier, leading to A2. The September 18th  
picture below,w(hen there was much more snow) shows our route of  
ascent, descent, on Wednesday. Note that this route avoids the steep  
ice tongue of the lower north Little Athabasca Glacier.

Mt Wilcox was basically dry on our ascent of the South Ridge scramble  
on Friday, we stepped on snow twice for about a meter each time.

A recreational party attempted the Grand Central Coulior on Mt  
Kitchener retreating from above the 'Narrows' crux and reporting that  
the Doyle/Blanchard ice strip was not in.'

Happy trails,

Barry Blanchard
Mountain Guide
www.barryblanchard.ca
www.yamnuska.com







Mt Wilcox on  Friday.  The size 3 avalanche that I reported in an MCR  
last Sunday is visible, kind of, below the Silverhorn in the background.

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