Observation: Reids Peak

Unpleasant is the word that comes to mind to describe my afternoon in the Bald-Reid cirque. Winds were blowing from seemingly every direction at once, doing all sorts of weird things to the snow surface and making travel a bit nasty.

Old debris still visible from a large avalanche that broke below the Bald-Reid col provided a nice teachable moment. It was a textbook case of a thin snowpack with a wind slab atop a weak layer failing in steep, rocky terrain. It appears this tune is on repeat as the high altitude, wind-exposed terrain is once again loading up.