Bachelor Creek Slide

[Crackbolter]

 

I hope you guys find this a bit useful.

[JoshK]

Huh?

 

Is this a picture of the slide that happened a couple of seasons ago? If so, what would be useful about it??

[TimL]

This past summer after doing the Ptarmigan Traverse our group found an easier way down the left hand side of the slide in the trees. I think it was about 30-45 minutes of bushwacking and then you hit the trail.

[klenke]

Two summers ago there was still hardpacked snow under all that debris. I was wondering how long it might stick around as it seemed pretty insulated. Maybe it'll set up into a new form of glacier: a timber glacier.

 

The old trail used to cut diagonally across from right to left where the debris field is. Now it's obviously gone. You sort of have to make up the route and try to find where the trail starts up again on the left hand side (climber's left). Or you can boot it up the really steep forest to climber's right of the debris. That forest is definitely steep but it is pretty direct. Booting it directly up the debrs field would be folly (there's just so many big trees to climb over that it would take forever and be dangerous with heavy packs).

[Bronco]

...blah blah blah...timber glacier...blabity blah blah blah...(there's just so many big trees to climb over that it would take forever and be dangerous with heavy packs).

 

It's only dangerous if you're a mountie. Personally I'd set up a Tyrollean for traversing the main danger areas.

[blue_morph]

Yep, seeing that makes me break into a sweat. Its a lot easier finding your way through that mess going down than up thats for sure. We took a ton of time going up through the debris attempting to kind of follow what we thought was the trail, but it was just really brutal. Definitely if you have to go up that route stay way to the left (right when going up) until you are above the avalanche path. Best to just do the whole traverse and you'll only need to descend that sucker.