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Still in great condition as of Sunday Jan 5th.

I walked out to Death Picnic this sunday morning (Dec 30). The climb is pretty much gone, desperate. Based my understanding of water feed for that climb works it's unlikely to reform this season. Found some other fun small stuff to play along the way thou.

Anybody get up there this weekend?

I was there yesterday (saturday dec 28) and it's still in pretty dam good condition.

I took a long walk around the alpental valley and snow lake on xmas eve. Flow reversal looked quite similar to earlier conditions but perhaps a wee bit scrappier The same for Resistance is Futile but that seemed less appealing with more snow covering it. The Source Lake Line (around the corner to the climbers right) had ice from top to bottom but from my vantage point (not very close) looked sporty thin, could use some fattening up for us mere mortals. And for anyone considering the first complete ascent of Slot Machine down on snow lake you might want wait... the 30m crux curtain is only halfway formed and dam thin. Sorry, no photographs this time... I'm getting lazy.

fun stuff!

Gerry and I linked up both climbs yesterday as Doug suggested might be possible. What a blast! my photos on facebook Heading up the 2nd pitch of "Resistance is Futile" Heading up the 2nd pitch of "Flow Reversal"

Here's Steph, Chad, and Dan looking good on the the summit. They came screaming past us near the top of the summit snow gulley. Hey Dan, what's the scoop on those blue climbing gloves?

Sweet FA John!

Here are some photos my friends took yesterday when they climbed chockstone falls. Photos by Alex Bendetov. The upper pillar looks sweet Here's the start of the climb... you can see a glimpse of the upper pillar up high. Two rope lengths of mostly snow plowing to get to the upper pillar.

Thanks Alex. BTW, got a glimpse of Chock Stone Falls on Thursday as we headed into Source Lake. The upper pillar looked real nice. Some of my climbing partners went and climbed it today and said they had fun on the upper pillar after they got the the first couple of pitches of snow plowing out of the way. Another group was just finishing it off when they arrived so that made alot easier for my friends.

Here's what it looked like on thursday...

Hey Fargo, which lines across from alpental caught your eye? We saw a few interesting things over that way that we considered attacking before deciding to head to the Source Lake Line today. I'd kind of like to explore some of these soon.

Hey DRep, That was me and Rob S on the source lake line today. I left my camera with photos in Robs car so no photos till tommorow. It's in but it's thinner than I've ever seen it, and this is the 5th or 6th time I've climbed it. Kind of seems like WI 4 but thin, hollow, and poor protection... I'm calling it a 4++ right now ...pretty spicy. And it's absolutely dry, no water dripping at all, so it's condition isn't going to change till we get some serious melt freeze cycles.

John A and I went up to Strobach on Monday and climbed Primus Sucks and Ice Dreams. I agree with Farrgo... unholy baptism, bleeder, and tower of power need a week or two to touch down solidly. Dropline needs time to fill in, right now it looks like really technical vertical icicles. Ponderosa looks doable but dang thin at the top.