[MCR] Rockies, exit from Peyto Hut

[Public Mountain Conditions Report]

My fellow Mountain Guides, Steve Blagbrough and Greg Yavorsky, and I  
guided an ice-walk from Bow Hut to Peyto Hut and out Peyto Lake,  
August 27-29. Conditions and weather were stellar, as reported  
elsewhere. Of note is that the bridge over the creek that drains the  
Peyto Glacier is still washed out with no word of being replaced.  
This creates new challenges for exiting this valley. We constructed a  
log bridge to cross the creek that drains Caldron Lake (this creek is  
visible on as a looker's left hand branch in the photo below). The  
valley bottom creek (the main one) was forded by finding a place  
where the creek was divided into 2 channels (before the treed hill/ 
constriction in the the picture below). We left our boots on and  
crossed in "centipede" chains of 5 with a Mountain Guide breaking the  
flow at the head. Had we known we would be leaving our boots on we  
would have crossed the upper -Caldron Lake- creek with them on too.

Also of note, and visible in the second photo below, is that the lake  
at the end of the Peyto Glacier has increased in size and grown a  
long finger lake up the inside of it's west lateral moraine. That  
moraine has be considerably undermined by water and has several large  
collapses that we chose to cross above, up glacier.

Happy trails,

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

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The Caldron Lake creek on the left and Peyto Glacier creek on the  
valley bottom

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Peyto Glacier with it's pro-glacial lake, and new finger lake, just  
visible.