Quick report

Kaleetan Peak, Chair Circumnav

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Quick report

Skied the circumnav clockwise with an early (~5am) start and a summit of Kaleetan. There was a good refreeze on all aspects and relatively easy travel conditions (ski and boot supportable, generally found foot travel with crampons to be the path of least resistance). Melakwa Lake valley has surprisingly poor coverage but this minimally impacts travel for the time being. East face of Kaleetan (white ledges) softened early, ideal corn window 9-10am. Summit chute was too melted for me to ski and firm neve, but fun if airy snow climbing. North aspects near chair peak lake and the snow lake divide remained firm. The south aspect of Snow Lake Divide was still high quality corn when I exited at noon. I observed an old wet avalanche that ran the length of the cupcake couloir above chair peak lake, presumably from this past weekend.