Up Granite Creek with the intent to check out the couloir that faces town on Mt Olds. Turns out the couloir has a pretty good cliff band in it that might be skiable, but not on a solo tour and with our current icy conditions. Maybe in April? Either way, the drainage has great access with a well kept trail into the alpine. Easy approach, but a bit of objective hazard from steep terrain above on a warm day.
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| Mt Olds with the couloir splitting the upper face. I think it might be skiable on the right day. |
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| The "x" marks an entrance couloir into Granite Creek from Mt Gastineau area |
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| Close up of Mt Olds Couloir |
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| Nice gully out of the basin to ridgeline headed to ridgeline that separates Salmon Creek from this basin. |
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| Exit approach gully to Salmon Creek ridgeline |
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| Mt Olds is out of pic to left, this is looking south. |
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| Mt Olds |
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| Mt Olds and a decent ridgeline approach |
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| Devils Paw way out there |
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| X over the entrance couloir and the decent to Granite basin. |
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| Looking down into head of Salmon Creek drainage. |
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| Camp 17 between Lemon Glacier and Cairn Peak |
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| Fritz Cove |
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| Ridgeline to Mt Juneau |
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| East to Devils Paw. |
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| Cropped of Devils Paw |
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| Backside of Mt Olds. |
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| South over Granite basin towards Taku Inlet. |
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