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Trip: Bugaboos - Various

 

Date: 8/6/2011

 

Trip Report:

Back from a killer first trip to the Bugs!! Had stable weather so we climbed until we couldn't anymore!!

 

Day 1: surfs up (5.9) up on west side of snowpatch spire and the we ran over and solo'd pigeon spire (famous west ridge route - 5.4). Amazing day and a sweet intro to bugs rock and routefinding.

 

Day 2: NE ridge of bugaboo spire. Good route but a tad oversold ihmo. Crazy exposure up high!! Descent went smoothly

 

Day 3: Slept in and climbed sunshine crack in the afternoon. That offwidth on p2 is pretty intense and I got the 11- roof pitch which was super fun. Found the route to be pretty damn sustained but definitely one of the best long crack climbs I've ever done.

 

Day 4/5: after sleeping in and much debate over weather we hiked to the base of the beckey chouinard and scpope out if it was too icy/snowy. we'd heard reports that it was still out of condition. after descending to the SW side of Howser and hiking up to the base we decided to just start climbing even though it was 3pm. We hit a bivy ledge above p10 and slept on the coolest bivy ledge looking up at the ridge's badass headwall! Woke at 4:30 to lightening! but it moved through quickly as we huddled and quivered under a jutting rock. We finished the ridge by midday and spent extra time climbing between ice patches on the summit ridge which was somewhat tricky and time consuming! The new rap route is pretty slick. In retrospect climbing with bivy gear and boots made us way more tired and took a little fun out of some of the 5.10 pitches but that bivy position was super memorable! We pretty much climbed most if not all of the variations that avoid the chimneys and tension traverse, etc. on the upper section.

 

The glaciers were in great condition and the big snowpack allowed us to boot ski down from the snowpatch-bugaboo col day after day!!

 

As a first trip, we were totally stoked and look forward to future trips!!

 

Hats off to James, my partner from Peru whom I hadn't climbed with since 2006! Was great being up there with you!

 

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Stoked on Surf's Up

 

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Au cheval on Pigeon Spire

 

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NE Ridge Bugaboo Spire

 

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Start of NE Ridge Bugaboo Spire

 

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One of the many variations on NE Ridge that bypass the mid fifth chimneys

 

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Traversing summits on Bugaboo Spire

 

 

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Sunshine Crack systems can be made out if you look carefully

 

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Sunshine crack - p3 - lots of roofs on this climb

 

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Playing with camera features on Sunshine Crack

 

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Elated to send the 11- roof pitch on Sunshine!

 

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Dropping from Pigeon Howser col!

 

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Wrapping around seeing the S and SW faces of Minaret and S Howser SW blows your mind!

 

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Approaching the B-C! The headwall gleaming far above!

 

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Nearing summit of S Howser

 

Videos on B-C and at bivy

 

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More photos on Flickr:

 

Gear Notes:

Didn't take #4 on B-C and didn't miss it much really

 

Approach Notes:

5.5 km, 950m to Applebee - approach is way more mellow than I had been led to believe, even with heavy packs

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