gertlush Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 (edited) Trip: Mt. Garibaldi - NW Face Date: 3/2/2008 Trip Report: Good times; we skinned up from the car at 400m to the snowmobile lodge at 1400 odd metres, fairly ass as I'm sure you can imagine. From there some kindly sledders gave us a ride to the end of Brohm (next one I meet gets a beer!!) and proceeded to carve up the slope: We found a nice bivy up on the glacier that night. The next day we went up to the peak and started bootpacking at the right side of the bergschrund. At the base of the rockband in the middle of the pic we set off a class 1 slide which piled up around the 3rd member of our party who was taking off his skis below. That got us thinking so we turned around and went home, & what a run down that slope . A good experience all round and too bad on missing the summit. Gear Notes: skis & poles Approach Notes: Get a sled!!! Edited March 3, 2008 by gertlush Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don_Serl Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 A good experience all round and too bad on missing the summit. ...no PROBLEM on missing the summit! (it can't go away) good thing on missing the slide! (you can come back...) (still a spooky snowpack, eh? best to be VERY conservative this spring, i reckon) cheers, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gertlush Posted March 3, 2008 Author Share Posted March 3, 2008 It was kind of weird on the glacier around there because with all the wind scouring not too much snow had been deposited. When we dug our bivy pit we hit a layer if dirt about a foot down. Once we got closer to the face on Garibaldi though the snow conditions got a little funkier. The slide was on a 35-40 degree slope with a crown of about 3-4 inches and 2-3 metres wide. A lesson learned anyways and you're right, it's not going anywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordop Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Interesting that you got that storm layer to go. I was very impressed by how well it had bonded on Decker yesterday: could not get it to move on a north facing 35 degree slope. Below that it was 1F in hardness down a full metre to bottom of test pit. Guess the wind loading on Garibaldi probably negated the bonding that occured elsewhere as the storm started with warm temps. See any natural activity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gertlush Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 Everything else around was solid, no activity even on Brohm ridge. Higher up on Garibaldi it looked like the slab continued so that was a factor on us turning back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlpineK Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 It's good to hear you made it back with an experience but nothing bad. I sure hope things get better up there in the early spring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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