FHR

Fantastic day on the FHR. Cold start: -12 at 8am. Multiple avalanches throughout the French drainage, up to size 3. Most of the bigger slides were on the sunny east face, but the west face had some smaller slides to 1.5 or 2. Probed 175 at the toe of the glacier, growing to 3m+ near the upper section. Unfortunately the Robertson headwall hadn't slid. We ascended the headwall via the west side where we felt we were able to limit our time of exposure on the headwall itself. We were supported by a 1 inch crust which the sun hadn't started to break down yet. The downside of the western ascent of the headwall is that it left us with a passable but uncomfortable ridgewalk. We descended the Robertson in perfect boot deep powder with no wind effect! The bottom section of the Robertson shooting gallery had multiple large avalanches to size 3 (some to ground) on both east and west faces.