Well no luck moving back up to High Camp today. The snow
from the storm the past couple days has dumped over 1.5 of powder onto the
Headwall (that steep, 2000 ft slope that is right out of Camp III). Apparently
there is a really weak persistent layer beneath this fresh snow, and it is ripe
to avalanche. At this point, we either want it to avalanche, so that the slope
can stabilize once more, or we want the snow to pack down and strengthen the
weak layer so that it is no longer a big risk. No word on how long this might
take…
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