They can probably make more money running the water intake for power than they can selling pulp.
Figure that will last until anaerobic biomass digestion for power starts to ramp up. I heard that a portable chip mill is currently at break-even if brought to a setting where all of the saw logs are already felled and yarded.
I don't recall anything unusual o difficult about the descent except that some idiot had left a shit-ton of prayer flags up there on which you might be strangled. The jumps were mellow and there were a couple easy chimneys.
BC parks just announced some closures today. The rock scaling is done and they were gonna reopen angels Crest, but it has peregrines nesting on p4 and 5 and is now officially closed til nesting season ends.
It's hard to hold aid climbers up as paragons of clean ethics when they do shit like leave pig heads hanging from belays at Index. That just ain't kosher, son.
Look at all the rock garbage at the base of that sad little cliff. Someone should arrest these rocks for littering and leaving their choss all over the slope.
Rapped the gully and postholed squishily in their approach shoes out via Crossover, said it was unpleasant but at least not a scree hop like later in the season
A friend did the NEB yesterday.
Pocket Glacier is "gone", very little snow on approach. Descent gully and Crossover Pass descent are "very snowy" though. They bivied on summit due to unexpected snow in the gullies.