Dru Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 boom! its early this year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken4ord Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 Nice, thanks for the picture Dru. Hey are you heading up there soon? Hence recon pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted June 21, 2004 Author Share Posted June 21, 2004 no frank baumann took that pic while out for a flight n saturday. i just saw it posted on bivouac and figured as many non-bivouac users would be interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dberdinka Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 That is a friggin unreal photo! Incredible luck to be flying by with camera in hand. What are the chances of that? 0.0001% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted June 21, 2004 Author Share Posted June 21, 2004 oh you could fly by for sevetal days afterwards and it would still look like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulB Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 Here's what it looks like a month later (attached photo taken July 18). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 The original photo isn't showing up...what was happening with the glacier in the pic?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted July 20, 2004 Author Share Posted July 20, 2004 Hah they must not have like the bandwidth drain. The pocket glacier below Slesse's east face doesn't cataclysmically slide, producing an ice avalanche into the basin below, every year. When it does, it usually goes in July or August. This year it was a month early. When the pocket glacier is gone it is much easier and safer to get to the Bypass Variation start than otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted July 20, 2004 Share Posted July 20, 2004 Ohhh I gotcha, thanks for the info, Dru. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponzini Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 Hiked to the prop cairn Saturday, the lower 2/3 of the bypass glacier has already avalanched out leaving (mostly) dry slabs behind. The upper 1/3 looks very precarious, is about 20-30 feet deep and could go at any moment. Lunch at the prop cairn featured almost constant avalanches, including a real boomer that dropped the entire height of the East Face, probably part of the summit cornice falling down. The washout is drivable by a good 4x4, but the creek crossing is gone. We hiked about 5min upstream and did a balls-deep ford, and found a nice log a few minutes further upriver on the way back. Some light bushwacking required. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dberdinka Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 Pics? How do the glacier/snowslopes below the south summit (start to SE Buttress) look? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponzini Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 Sorry, no pics. The slopes referred to are a mess of avalanche debris and stonefall - the area is very active right now as there is a large amount of snow still stuck onto the upper mountain. Combined with the warm weather, it's a mess. Give it at least a week..... Snow conditions from the end of the clearcut to the prop cairn were knee to thigh deep slush - a canoe paddle would have been very useful!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponzini Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 Oh, and almost every face and gully is overhung by drooping, dripping cornices Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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