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| mattnoland | Triangle du Tacul  Date Climbed: Oct 13, 2008 | |
| Climbed with one other party on the route, which got crowded until we got well above them. Great ice countered poor visibility. Spindrift pouring down the route constantly made me glad I decided on a third layer. We were thinking of climbing to the summit of Mount Blanc du Tacul, but the weather didn't seem promising and the big slope looked pretty bad, so we rapped off and called it a day. | |
| Posted Oct 15, 2008 9:17 am | ||
| Bas Visscher | nice Date Climbed: Oct 10, 2008 | |
| Together with Jurgen Mesman. Great little classic! | |
| Posted Oct 13, 2008 6:41 am | ||
| Jurgen Mesman | Nice route but very crowded Date Climbed: Oct 10, 2008 | |
| Climbed the route with SP-member Bas Visscher. Nice steep ice climb, but overcrowded! There were at least 7 other parties during our climb. Got hit by ice all the way..Conditions were perfect! | |
| Posted Oct 13, 2008 3:59 am | ||
| climbxclimb | Nice route but a bit to crowded Date Climbed: Jul 10, 2008 | |
| we climbed the route on a rope of two people swinging lead at each pitch, I led the steepest pitch, i think it is the 4th but it was in my opinion a WI 3+ more than a 4. We topped Mont Blanc du Tacul just because it was still early, on the descent through the normal route we saw a small serac fall, probably a worning of the major disaster that happened this summer... | |
| Posted Sep 13, 2008 7:41 pm | ||
| iceiswise | short but nice Date Climbed: Jun 5, 2007 | |
| First clear day in a long period of snowfall. We even had to make a track to the foot of this normally, extremely popular route! We climbed most of it simultaniously until the start of the real difficulties. These are climbed in two long steep pitches. We had to rappel down because of avalanche danger on the normal rout. It's more like a sporty winter crack but just a litlle bit higher. | ||
| Posted Sep 19, 2007 12:00 pm | ||
| Gripped | Climbed Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2006 | |
| Great fun, empty and we walked off the top and down the normal route. | |
| Posted Sep 15, 2006 2:52 pm | ||
| uphigh50 | Summer ascent Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2005 | |
| Superb route, but in leanish condition at this time. Could see the winter bolts and tat two or three meters above us. Would echo the words above about climbers above you, but finding it clear would need an early start. Not sure of the exact date we did it, but it was the day the Tacul ordinary route avalanched. Rather glad we decided not to top out! | |
| Posted May 15, 2006 4:05 pm | ||
| bbirtle | Climbed... Date Climbed: Jan 9, 2006 | |
| ...it. Seconded the whole thing. Jon led it. Nice route! | |
| Posted Apr 9, 2006 9:53 pm | ||
| bbirtle | Climbed... Date Climbed: Feb 2, 2006 | |
| ...it again, this time swinging leads with Patagonia Thomas. I led the crux pitch, yeah! I echo Jeroen's sentiments about being careful of other climbers. It's a very popular route. Be the first and go quick otherwise expect ice and rockfall. Cool route though, definitely a classic. | |
| Posted Apr 9, 2006 9:52 pm | ||
| Jeroen Vels | My first steep ice-climb Date Climbed: Sep 26, 2004 | |
| When we climbed the couloir there was one other party in the route. I wouldn't do it a second time with other climbers in the same route. I got hit by falling ice on the left arm and one of the other climbers got hit on the nose. Other than that, a very nice introduction to steep ice! See also my website here. | |
| Posted Mar 31, 2006 5:17 pm | ||
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