King Creek ice

**We were the first party in today and only one other party came after us. **Approach has some open water crossings to jump over. Trail mostly good. **Magic touch looked maybe too thin for a v-thread. Might be possible to climb but really needs a little longer to fatten up. **Main flow is only half as wide as typical. Wet soft ice in spots and watch for a thin top out. **Right Cave Flow has no ice yet. Not in. **Left Cave Flow has just enough ice to climb but looked a little tough to protect. Barely in. **Gully flow was narrow with some wet ice down the groove on the right. Some dry brittle ice on the left. Protected fairly well. The ice above was barely touching down and if not climbed, might form up.

While ice climbing the Gully Flow we had an avalanche run from above the cliff, down the cliff and terminate at the base. It happened about 50m climbers left of the Gully Flow. Within an hour a second avalanche occured in the same spot. On the approach trail the north facing gullies still had some rocks and boulders showing so not heavily loaded just yet. The south facing gullies had also got some snow in them that in the afternoon we noticed some pinwheeling and minor signs of possible loose wet.