[MCR] Selkirks: Valkyr Range

[Public Mountain Conditions Report]

First full day of our Valkyr Lodge week and two things jumped out at me:

- The cornices are the largest I've seen in 7 winters of working here

- We had a sudden planar shear 60 cm down on an east aspect at 2200m.  
This is the first "cash-register" shear like this I've seen in quite  
some time. It failed on a 5 cm thick layer of rounding facets and  
surface hoar. Previous groups have seen this shear but it has mostly  
been resistant in character so I suspect the surface hoar is spotty.  
There has been no avalanches on this layer here but it did make think  
a bit

20 cm of cold smoke here in the past 24 hrs.

Mark Klassen
Mountain Guide


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