TR: Rogers Pass New Years
Day 1 Avalanche Crest
The first day we went up Avalanche Crest. Skinning in the alpine was tough due to wind and low snow, we managed to get to MacDonald NW looking into Crossover and Herdman when things whited out. If we knew this route it would be interesting to check out, but you do exit near Hermit which would be a long walk back to our car.
We thought about skiing down partway down NRC and heading up to NRC Col and Avalanche Peak but whiteout persisted so we skied down NRC and called it a day.
Temps -3 in alpine. HS 135 on W slopes at 2400m. Winds light from SW. S and SW aspects have solar effect.
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Day 2 Perly Rock
Today we drove up with Glade and Jen who skied the practice slopes off Vaux, while we check out Illecillewaet glacier with John, Linda, Doug, Tre and Rob. It was colder in the morning -8 in the alpine. NE wind affect in alpine with a stout wind slab making for sporty skinning to the terminus of the Illecillawaet. Glacier’s really broken up with many new transverse slots at the top of the terminal moraine so be warned.
Managed to navigate down through thin snowpack and even get decent turns at treeline elevations.
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Day 3 Loop Brook – Cougar East Chute.
The conditions were not very inspiring but since we were here we had to go out again. We wanted an ‘easy’ day. After Lee talked to Robert he said this area is pretty good! Lee didn’t tell us the skin track was challenging or that the snow coverage was low… it was an interesting adventure.
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