Bear Divide to Mt Hooper 6/11-13
Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 7:53 pm
Ok, ok here ya go.
Left Rock Creek Pack station Saturday. Patchy snow to trailhead, patchy dirt to Marsh Lake, never took the skis off until I was back at Marsh Lake on Monday.
North Col (Bear Cr Spire), Bear Pass, North Gables Pass, Hooper Col, Selden Pass, Sanger Pass, Gemini/Gables Pass, upper Merriam, Bear Paw, Bear, North Col
Snow was generally quite good with coverage typical of late April early May. Snow conditions were also typical of spring with good supportable corn on south and west aspects and a corn surface that turns to unconsolidated mush after 9:00 on the N and E. This situation was exaggerated at higher elevations.
Natural slides and cornice collapse on N and E aspects were wide spread with the warming on Sunday.
Snow level looked to be aound 9,200 to 9,500'
JD
Left Rock Creek Pack station Saturday. Patchy snow to trailhead, patchy dirt to Marsh Lake, never took the skis off until I was back at Marsh Lake on Monday.
North Col (Bear Cr Spire), Bear Pass, North Gables Pass, Hooper Col, Selden Pass, Sanger Pass, Gemini/Gables Pass, upper Merriam, Bear Paw, Bear, North Col
Snow was generally quite good with coverage typical of late April early May. Snow conditions were also typical of spring with good supportable corn on south and west aspects and a corn surface that turns to unconsolidated mush after 9:00 on the N and E. This situation was exaggerated at higher elevations.
Natural slides and cornice collapse on N and E aspects were wide spread with the warming on Sunday.
Snow level looked to be aound 9,200 to 9,500'
JD