[MCR] Jasper Rock climbs - May 21, 2009

[Public Mountain Conditions Report]

Out at Morro Slabs again today for a cold windy day. Despite a lot more sun
than the last three days we did not see a big retreat of the snowline up the
peaks north and east of town. Snowline in the eastern slopes is still only
three or four hundred feet above the valley floor and a lot of new snow is
evident everywhere. Noted a fair amount of sluffing (point releases) in the
new snow plus the one Size three slab we noted and reported this morning on
Indian Ridge. (See Mike Eder's report today for the Icefield's perspective.)

Any of the scrambles in Kane's book are very snowy at the moment and likely
best to give that a miss this weekend. Miette is a mess and Perdrix should
be avoided by any route. As for the Colin Range - forget about it. Even the
SW face on Morro still has snow on all the ledges including at the base of
the face. Hidden Valley still has visible snow on the ledges as well. Morro
Bluffs is slowly drying off but there may be more than the normal amount of
rockfall from above as the new snow melts off. No news from the Rock Gardens
but it would have been frigid today as the wind kept things very cool.

Cyril Shokoples
Jeremy MacKenzie
Peter Amann

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