North Joffre Creek - Schneidelwurz 4/20/2008
Trip: North Joffre Creek - Schneidelwurz
Date: 4/20/2008
Trip Report:Really what can I say about climbing ice on April 20th..This ice climbing is awfully casual when you can go for a sit down breakfast, saunter in on a flat trail in about an hour and a half, walk up bomber neve to the base, then climb some of the best plastic screw sucking ice, followed by a daylight ski out and then drive home on dry sunkissed roads with your sunglasses on...
ice cragging is great!!
A very good friend who has been going to school in London for the last few years showed up for a social visit and managed to luck out on some good ice, we put together a kit for him and had a blast climbing Shneidelwurz. A phenomenal route in an amazing setting.
The route on the left, Swiss Frommage on the right was sporting a horizontal crack
Don Climbed Gee Wiz on the 5th and noted a large crack about 35 m up, here you can see Gee Wiz on the right which is now missing a 35 m high ice curtain, geuss the big fluctuation in temps was too much
Toby pitch 1
Since Toby hasnt seen ice in 3 years and was having so much fun, hooting and hollering and being the nice guy I am I offered him the nice top lead
im sure there is more ice time if your keen
