Well I for one am glad we managed to sneak into your province and nail the McBride traverse during an unbelievably good weather window: cold, clear, stable.
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Some notes:
- We did Squamish to Whistler via the Neve and McBride, April 11 to 16. Five days and change, but we were traveling fairly heavy (real tent, good food, booze, etc).
- Most people go the opposite direction but south to north means you climb frozen solar aspects early in the day and ski good snow ("dildo powder"??) on the colder aspects.
- Generally found it to be very straightforward -- nice conditions make things easier of course. But it's a few notches easier than, say, Bugaboo-Rogers.
- If I were to do it again, I'd spend some time camped out to get more time skiing the amazing north facing glacier runs found the entire length of the route. I trudged by some incredible looking lines...
Anyways, sorry for sneaking into your province, and sorry for cunting up your thread. You may resume arguing about the relative riskiness of AZ now....