Quick report

Andesite/South Castle

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Quick report

Cracking
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We toured up Andesite around 9am, after finding a very unpleasant crust on most aspects we traversed along the ridge to ski south castle which yielded awesome spring skiing conditions. We noticed shallow but widespread cracks along many areas on andesite, test slopes with these cracks were unreactive. We were able to release several small cornices on east aspects of andesite and northwest apsects along castle pass.