AA col conditions
Conditions reportACMG Guide · Jul 24, 2025 · Icefields
Conditions report
- Location
- AA col
A late report from July 24th, we climbed Athabasca from AA col. The morraine leading up to the glacier has shifted significantly, with the trail being wiped out in the lower half, making for tedious going.
Glacier was dry, with the firn line far back, starting just below the AA col.
The Andromeda side of col was a mix of bare ice and/snow, schrund is open, with a bridge far right.
The Athabasca side had some good, continous snow ramps all the way up, that had avalanched up to size 2 the previous 1-2 days. Unfortunately there had been no overnight freeze, heavy rain to ridgetop that morning, and it wasn't clear what snow remained above, so we took the scree bash going up and left that was all dry.
Very sloppy snow going up Silverhorn and along the ridge, fully saturated snowpack, boottop to mid-calf penetration.
On return, we noticed the trail skirts the edge of the steep morraine very closely while approaching the ice coach road. One steep morraine feature that was yellow, overhanging below the trail, and shedding rocks continously, high up above the coach road, seemed to be ready for take-off. On the flat morraine above, many new sagging cracks suggest the feature is peeling off. We gave it a wide berth by staying far back from the edge.




