Fat Flakes!

We are all sat here in our megamid BC Cook/social tent and outside its snowing, the tunes are being drowned out by the roar of the stove melting snow for a hot chocy before bed.

Johnny Boy Baker is playing some old skool beats from my iPod, some that I didn't even know existed! I hate Jon Bonjovi and listening to Baker recite the full Living on a Prayer album is pretty painful. Not too many folk know, he worked in Minehead's Butlins hoilday resort as a entertainer for 5 years and boy are we paying for this now!

Weather here at the moment is not being kind to us. We woke up to cloud and light snow, which has been here for most of the day, watching spindrif pour down the East Face of Dicky, adding to the large snow cones at the base is less than ideal.

To Fend off Cabin (tent) fever we all skinned north up the Ruth Glacier for 5km in a whiteout conditions, but we were treated to a short break in the weather where views over the Mooses Tooth, Mt Barrill, and Mt Dicky where breathtaking.

Our climbing plans are still to be made, we need some high pressure to build to burn off all the snow that is plastering the peaks and for the snow pack to stabilise before we start getting onto something big. Alpinism can't be forced, it is a waiting game, and we are pretty good at waiting!!

Matt.
(Photo) Matt on the Ruth Glacier in a brief clearing this afternoon.