Blackcomb Backcountry

More for beta pictures than anything here is a glacier ramble from Jan 10th

http://www.leelau.net/2011/tro.....010-01-10/  - for more including pictures that aren't crippled by being resized

Visibility was poo, snow was windshat on all aspects so Adrian and I settled for a pleasant ramble. Route was Blackcomb Glacier – Circle Glacier – Decker Glacier – Decker-Trorey Col – Trorey Glacier – Pattison – Pattison-Tremor col – Decker S – Decker Bowl – Disease Ridge and out. We took a look at various lines to ski but passed on them including NW Pattison, Pattison wedge, N face of Trorey, 19th and 9th Hole

Notes: Temps were between – 15 to -18. Skies overcast. Winds light from SW. Windslab present on random aspects. Looked like remnants of large slide on Decker 9th Hole face with large crown line (perhaps cornice triggered). Snow on S aspects sastrugi and sun-affected and wind-affected.

Map of the route is here

East Col looking to Decker

On the east shoulder of Decker looking to Trorey and the Trorey Glacier