marauders - Nov 3, 2005 8:09 pm - Hasn't voted
rock section...How was the rock section leading up to the couloir? Climb rating? Quality of rock? Protection necessary?
Joseph Bullough - Nov 4, 2005 1:10 am - Hasn't voted
Re: rock section...The lower rock section was 4th class crap - lots of loose stuff. I was kind of (okay, very) nervous, and we nearly backed off at one point, but downclimbing seemed like an even scarier proposition so we pushed on.
We got a little off route, and ended up entering the couloir from the west, some distance above the bottom. Ideally you would stay further to the east and hopefully hit the bottom of the couloir. I think the approach climb would have been easier had it not been for the new snow - there wasn't much, but just enough to make things treacherous. We didn't have a rope, but kind of wished we did, or at least I wished :)
The couloir itself was a blast though, and really made up for the nasty lower part. It's a route I wouldn't mind repeating.
marauders - Nov 8, 2005 9:28 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: rock section...I think I'd like to give it a go...but in the spring. Hopefully that messy rock section has a nice layer of snow around April.
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