As of September 17, there is a snow bridge over the left side of the bergshrund. The couloir itself is fat with neve and two water ice patches, each of which is about a pitch long. Despite warm temperatures and a relatively late start at 8:30, we had only one naturally released rock whiz by, and the rope only dislodged one other.
I'm not sure if there's a bridge over the U Notch shrund, but it looked similar with half neve, half ice. It was smeared by a lot of rock debris, though, so it might be a little less stable than V Notch at the moment.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Rv ... directlink
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/e7 ... directlink
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