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      Selkirks: Valkyr Range conditions

      • 2011-02-23 14:16:25

        Selkirks: Valkyr Range conditions

        The latest info from the Public Mountain Conditions Report:


        First full day of our Valkyr Lodge week and two things jumped out at me:


        - The cornices are the largest I've seen in 7 winters of working here


        - We had a sudden planar shear 60 cm down on an east aspect at 2200m. This is the first "cash-register" shear like this I've seen in quite some time. It failed on a 5 cm thick layer of rounding facets and surface hoar. Previous groups have seen this shear but it has mostly been resistant in character so I suspect the surface hoar is spotty. There has been no avalanches on this layer here but it did make think a bit


        20 cm of cold smoke here in the past 24 hrs.


        Mark Klassen

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