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Topic: June 14th 2009, Sulphide Glacier (Read 1860 times)
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wterrano
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Headed upto Baker Lake, looked cloudy so opted for the Sulphide. Left the car at 9:30.
Snow starts around 4400', continuous from there except three short patches (Close together -- one carry) at 5400' as you go around the cliff bands.
Summit was out for a little while around noon, breaks in the cloud cover got me to ~8200 ft. Completely socked in then, after waiting awhile I had to ski my
uptrack to the bottom of the cloud around 7500'.
Beautiful day below there! Great corn all afternoon.
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James Wells
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How were road conditions and the dry part of the approach? Any significant obstacles on the approach or the route?
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wterrano
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More detailed conditions :
1) Road is clear to trailhead. Trail is snow free and easy to above the switchbacks
2) The glacier is still very well filled in on climbers left.
3) From what I could see of the summit, the central gully looked like it was *probably past skiing, but I couldn't be sure. By the time I was near the pyramid it was a complete whiteout, but parties who had camped and hit the morning clearing had summitted. Not sure of their route, they said a rope was handy.
Hope this helps!
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James Wells
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Great, thanks very much.
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Robert Connor
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When I was up there two weekends ago the summit was not really skiable. It was a mess of deep steps, avy runnels and fallen and exposed rocks. By now I can't imagine it would be worth skiing above the base of the pyramid.
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