philfort Posted March 9, 2003 Share Posted March 9, 2003 No, not climbing, avalanche-watching. The forecast of EXTREME AVALANCHE DANGER sounded bad for skiing and anythign else, so we hiked into the ice caves basin this morning to watch snow fall down the north face. Got absolutely drenched by rain/wet snow, but it was highly entertaining, Big Four put on a great show. None of the debris that fell went as far as the recent stuff that was already there, so I imagine what we saw must still have been "relatively small". The big dust clouds were nice. As we were leaving, the towers on the left let loose a bunch of snow right from the top, which rushed down those narrow gullies, shooting swirly billowing clouds of powder out horizontally once it reached the bottom, like compressed air.... very cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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