trundler

Crossed a sketchy snowbridge to reach the route (probably will be gone by next weekend). Climbed and down climbed a bunch of options of various aridity to avoid the waterfall in the 5.6 dihedral of pitch one. Experienced a wee peppering of ice fall on the fourth class traverse. The topout might be a while before it is completely snow free. A snow patch on two tree ledge forced us (unwittingly)to thrutch up the direct variation into the hand traverse at which point I was thrashed and we bailed. The traverse crack was dripping a bit and on the hike out it looked like the upper shield crack was getting a smidge wet from the day's melt. It was a beautiful day, but the route needs some more time.

Came down with a case of the gumbies and had to bail from the hand traverse. Left a #4 TCU and .75 Camalot. If recovered, it would be cool to have them back and you would be rewarded with beer and good karma. Otherwise, the TCU has taken two minor falls and the camalot none, both roughly 2 years old. Cheers