Lookout Col

Original intent was to go to "Practise Trees" aka Vaux Trees but entire area was under alder sanction (TM Randy Heppell) with all crossings of the creeks involving acrobatic follys with high chance of immersion. Therefore took Great Glacier summer approach (which is a pretty decent skin track route) in the direction of Lookout Col. General observation that entire Illecillewaet drainage really shows its character as massively striated glacial moraine when there's so little snow. The ridgelines are plenty and the separating valleys deep so linking up line to line is tough. In short, it needs way more snow. Obs - temps -6. Skies cloudy tending to graybird as the day progressed. Winds nil. Storm snow as before 30 in valley to 40/50cms new. Much more facetting observed as seems to be preserved in the hollow pockets of the moraine. Fairly easy to collapse storm snow into holes which, it of itself, presents its own set of unique hazards. Expect extensive aldercations in the luge-run exits which build character.