Still a bit of ice at Blue Lake- can link up about 5m of vertical (at best ) into some low angle ice and then another 2m flow to give about 20m of "steepish" climbing. The 5m high good ice section covers about 20m at ground level so made for quite fun soloing/ ice bouldering variations but I'm glad we didnt take in anything other than tools and crampons.
Could ski all the way from the carpark in Guthega on Saturday and excellent snow coverage from the 40cm dump last week. Great ski touring.
An avalanche had occured in the Blue Lake cirque (?maybe Thursday) with the crown wall visible about 2m below the regular cornice on the westerly slopes and a lot of debris below.