Watch for bears

Traveled on a variety of aspects and elevations today. Low elevation forest travel is unsurprisingly bad - Cornice Ridge up track is kind of worst of all worlds, too much snow for sneakers, too little for good skinning. Expect it to take significantly more time than usual. There was a firm crust across all aspects above about 1000m in the morning. Softened significantly on south and east faces through the day, but not north or west, where it remained very firm well into the afternoon. Heads up for bears out there! We spotted some tracks crossing from Polywood area over to Zymacord and down the Zym trees ridge. We heard a very large cornice fall or rock fall a few ridges north of us around 1030am but observed no activity directly. There are quite a few newish cornice fall avalanches to size 2 in the Shames area - they aren’t triggering anything, but the cornices themselves remain huge in many places.