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Topic: July 19, 2009 Muir Snowfield (Read 669 times)
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Chuck C
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The conditions on the snowfield ranged from really tough to 'maybe I should just walk'. Mostly walked up as the size of the suncups made skinning a little more effort that booting. The suncups are fast becoming sunkettles. We tried banking along the insides to ski them. Tons of work. There were a couple patches of smoother areas that were great skiing. Unfortunately, they were short stretches. We went up to the little lobe to the east of the bottom of the snowfield (~7600 ft). That was untracked and smooth resulting in a nice run. Probably not worth carrying up the skis for awhile unless you are trying to get somewhere else.
Wildlife report: Two attack hummingbirds (at 9000 and 10000 ft!). A pair of mating marmots below glacier vista and lots of marmots eating the flowers (don't they know they'll get in trouble for that!).
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