Cirque Peak North Couloir

La qualité du hors-piste était:

OK

Les conditions de neige étaient :

• Affectée par le vent

Nous avons parcouru:

• Pentes alpines
• Pentes de faible inclinaison

Nous sommes restés à l'écart de:

• Pentes ensoleillées

La journée était:

• Ensoleillée
• Chaude
• Mouillée

Conditions d'avalanche

• Augmentation rapide de la température jusqu'à près ou au-dessus de 0°C ou neige mouillée en surface.

Our party of three skied the Cirque North Couloir traverse. We entered and exited near Helen Creek. Another party of three entered at Helen Creek and exited at Dolomite Creek.

Our party bootpacked all the way up Cirque Peak but the other party skinned on the climbers right snow-covered area, closer to the cornice.

We rappelled about 50 m down the couloir on 60 m ropes and found medium quality snow down in the couloir as far down as the glacier. The quality of the snow on the glacier was variable but decent.

As we rounded the east aspect of Cirque Peak, we followed a skin track that was seemingly far enough from cornices to be safe but there was a massive piece of cornice (1.5m x 1.5 m x 0.5m) that had travelled 25-50 m further than a slide it had triggered.