jordop

Other side of the #3

& today

Epic trying to get up Wells Peak. Broken chain, frozen skins, &c NO ICE. Then another epic trying to get at the upper pitch of The Sheet: vertical cedar grovelling. then it was 3:45 Good times Secret wells peak wall last year:

Today: Mousetrap is see-thru 1st pitch, otherwise OK except for big missing chunk higher Medusa wild looking almost overhanging at cave The sheet was tragically too short Secret Wells Peak ice was NOT THERE also various other cool looking things on the #3 Whatever this is, looked kool

http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/forecast/city_e.html?YHE What a wonderful week to return to work

Mousetrap

Stuff forming in hope!!!!!!!!!!!! Just drove it two hours ago. Fricken cold. photos after I have a shower and a beer!

Complete lowdown

Pitches 2-4 on Back of Beyond. Incredible 10a-b 90 minutes from the car.

If you have XP and a USB slot on the camera, you shld be able to access the photos on the card: go to "my computer", click on "removable disk" with camera attached. That's what I do after the viewing software my camera came with crapped out. try that?

I think the time frame on these was more like the last few years, not months. The post was made in 2000. First ed. of Nelson vol II w. Colonial in it came out that year I had never heard of it before then either

I'm headed into to Mariott Basin for a few days on Jan 1st... hopefully the snowpack in the Duffy Lake area is a little better than 10 inches at higher elevations? Yeah, there's more up high (one metre at Whistler), but it's apparently got a wicked crust right now. It should be better by the 1st. Hopefully

We somehow thought there would be snow SOMEWHERE in SWBC. Tried to go into the hut in Phelix Creek: 3 inches of snow in the forest About 10 inches on the Duffey, no help there. Read this morning that this is the lowest snow year in 15 years AlpineK wrestling with the Ents:

Oooo, jeez. Little late now, huh? Better call all the mags and issue a retraction! And despite the massive overarching controversy of wilderness bolting and area closures, I'm sure they would just LOVE to wade into that one

Nobody told the folks in Hope about the arctic outflow http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/forecast/city_e.html?YHE

http://www.matthewbarr.co.uk/muppets/

Zero and Minus Point Five:

#3 A look at Minus One climbed by Guy Edwards, Ian Campbell, and friend. The ground Edwards might have covered on his solo line is marked with question marks.

Head on:

Jesus, I'm makin a mess here; just spilled my beer . . . Okay, here is the latest labelling of Sumallo lines based on my photos and Don's memory. Note that Beckey's numbering of the gullies, possibly based on de Jong's descriptions, labels the North Couloir as Minus Five. However, under the "new" labelling, it makes sense that the North Couloir is MINUS SIX !!!!!! And minus Four is the Edwards/Spagnut variation to the north couloir.

Post deleted by jordop

Post deleted by jordop

Thanks for the legwork Don. It looked like the Edwards/Spagnut start to the N couloir was the "plum" in terms of a natural and somewhat serious line. Can't wait to go back when things are a bit fatter and fuller

It never gets plowed anymore. However, you should be able to drive it right now with heavy chains and some 4WD hc. Expect constant woop-de-doos from the sleds. Feck and I drove it in his truck a few years ago in very similar conditions.

Hmm, the next gully left featured an incredible ice pillar (far left in photo -- the gully in centre dead ends), but was guarded down low by a cliff band (not visible in photo). Maybe this is it? Probably passable later in the year . . . Looks feasible to then traverse over into the Rideout/Sumallo gully and thence to Sumallo, not very "direct" though