Chickadee Valley S Facing Paths

Skied the Whymper circuit descending the N Glacier route. Challenging trailbreaking in the trees with a pleasant mix of facets, breakable suncrust, bulletproof wind packed snow through the trees. Once in the alpine basin, snow was mostly hard packed or a thin wind crust over facets. Came across a few old thin windslabs, unreactive. No evidence of sun affecting the surface on the south slope to col. No snow shed from rock features or sunny slopes. Ski crampons were a must.

Four of the south facing slide paths in Chickadee had slid. Looked like it was from the last 24-48 hours. Debris reached top of fan or 100m into it, covering the numerous tracks/uptracks found all over the aprons (they are skied our FYI). Hard to see in photo. No crown seen and debris did not seem wet or chunky so assume they are loose dry in nature. Slides ran 200-500m