[MCR] Rockies, Popes Peak

[Public Mountain Conditions Report]

My fellow Mountain Guide, Steve Holeczi, and I went to take a look at  
the skiing the left hand Narao Gully today, April 27th.  Great  
skinning up on a supportive crust in the morning in the forest (we  
didn't use, or have, ski crampons). We chose to give the Narao Gully  
a miss given that a slab had avalanched out of the right hand gully  
in the last few days. The crown looked to be one and a half meters at  
the deepest and the slab failed pretty much from one side of the  
gully to the other. We continued on up valley for the Popes Peak  
tour. Felt like winter in the upper valley and we had good dust on  
crust skiing. Moist snow in the forest on the way down, but the crust  
remained supportive. A good day.

Happy trails,

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

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The Narao Gullies

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Slab out of the right hand gully

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the steep pitch with our surface sloughs

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