Cerise Dec 26 - 28, 2009

Cerise - last three days - Dec 26 - 28

Snow above 2200m wind-affected by NE winds.

Scouted to Anniversary Col.  Matier Gl slots are big.  Bring some crevasse gear for travel there. 

Solar not strong enough to adversely affect W and E facing slopes.  S facing slopes a bit crusty.  Skied slopes around Vantage Pk (E, NW, NE, SW aspects) and a NW couloir off Matier Ridge. 

Surface sluff on a right side up snowpack.  Some minor sluff seen off moraine wall.  Some point releases and older slides off what looked like solar-warmed rocks.  Otherwise nothing significant to report other then what looks like big (3 - 4mm) surface hoar that will likely add to the problematic facets found buried in previous Rohr TR and in recent Rohr MCR