Coire Dubh Integrale Climber's Log
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| climbxclimb | Lost in the storm... Date Climbed: Dec 29, 2006 | |
| We started around 9 AM , thinking to get to the base of the climb in 1 hour. It was snowing heavily and it had been snowing all night, no visibility of Goat Mountain or Loder Peak whatsoever...We lost the trail in the approach and wondered for about 2 hours. We found some ice that we though was the beginning of the route...we were wrong after two pitches of low angle ice we realized we were in the wrong spot, we came down and went in search of the real climb. After traversing high on the scree we found the climb having bypassed already the first 2 pitches of easy ice, we started from there on steeper ice some being 80 degrees probably. We reached the big bowl were the ice route ends, and from there we started on the first pitch of rock witch with all the snow fallen the night before and still fallin turned out to be quite difficult, at the end of what we though was the first pitch, we banged in a piton and bailed because it was getting to late.... It was a fun day even if a bit frustrating... It will be for the next time.... | |
| Posted Aug 11, 2007 8:09 pm | ||
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