Canadians report on the Alpine South of the border

[Dan_Miller]

Did anyone else happen to see the following conditions report posted in today's Canadian Mountain Cnditions Report. I wonder who took the photo (not John Scurlock as best as I can ascertain)?

 

We need to thank our kind neighbors to the North for letting us in on conditions south of the 49th parallel! There was a similar north Cascades condition report about a week earlier, kind of buried in the ASCI text.

http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/mcr/attachments/20100507/41164b68/attachment-0001.html>

 

 

Paul Berndsen, Mountain Guide authored the Report.

 

 

ACMG Mountain Conditions Report Summary for the Coastal Mountains issued May 4th 2010

SOUTH COAST / NORTH CACADES;

The weekend weather is looking promising. The cool and unsettled airmass has brought periodic snow flurries throughout the week, is stabilizing as a weak ridge of high pressure builds onto the coast. On Wed afternoon (May 5th), I drove by the Coquihalla summit there was 10cm of moist snow over a firm base that held my weight.

The snowline has fluctuated, and has been down as low as 3000ft

In the Eldorado Pk area in the North Cascades, there is a report of a recent large slab avalanche (sz. 3.5) on an alpine south aspect. An aerial photo of the slide shows a large propogation that is many hundreds of meters wide.

 

[G-spotter]

Ya it was Scurlock, it was in yesterday's email

[Dan_Miller]

It seemed that it might have been John, but a scan of all the new additions to his website didn't reveal to me any photos that current. I'll have to check the CMCR a little more closely.

 

I retract my earlier statement. I was wondering if we might hear from you Drew. Thanks for setting the record straight!

[JoshK]

You don't have to check the CMCR. A cursory glance at the NWAC page and you would have found 1.) a "special avalanche forecast" which included 2.) a link to this exact photo on their site, credited to Scurlock. In fact, I would imagine the CMCR got their info from the NWAC, but who knows.