[MCR] Rockies, Ice Nine

[Public Mountain Conditions Report]

Got chased away from Ice Nine yesterday by a size 1 slough that ran  
over Happy Days while my buddy was finishing the first pitch of Ice  
Nine. Several centimeters of overnight snow on the highway. A coldish  
-20 something morning with consistent light snow fall as we  
approached (less than 1 cm/hr). Calm air, no wind. The approach gully  
has deep debris from large avalanches. Blue ice chunks from ice  
collapses, of what I assumed was Happy Days, sitting on the surface.  
We observed a number of small sloughs cleaning off of the mountain  
before the size 1 roared over Happy Days and we ran away.

Looks like the second pitch of Ice Nine is probably the crux right  
now. The first pitch is fractured at the roof level, but has frozen  
over on the front side.

Happy trails,

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


Fracture at the roof of pitch 1


Sloughing over Happy Days 10 minutes before the size 1.

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