[MCR] The Howsons on Easter 2011

[Public Mountain Conditions Report]

There are still 200 cm of snow at the lodge. The snowpack has not been 
shrinking much at low elevations and growing at higher altitudes. We 
skied a S aspect today and found soft cold snow on the Solitaire Glacier 
and excellent corn below, all the way to the valley bottom. We skied 
down the Duodenum, and down the moraine all the way to the Burnie 
Glacier. It was still -6 on the summit and no warmer than 4 degrees at 
the lodge. We saw some older slabs, kicked a cornice that propagated 
rather well, and saw an icefall on the Loft Glacier that raked the 
slopes below but did not pull out a slab. There was a thin slab that 
propagated quite well, about 100 m, in steep terrain beside the Loft 
Glacier.

Later on, I got the first load of firewood with the snowmobile and only 
got stuck once (but good).

-- 
Christoph Dietzfelbinger
Mountain Guide