I climbed this route as well on Sunday and it was scary how many people were jammed up from the hogsback up to the chute. There must have been at least 6 roped teams of 4 or more that we passed.We decided not to rope up and ended up cutting up above all the roped teams. I felt bad about the possibility of knocking ice down but some of these teams were not moving at all.Dunno if it was tiredness or what but it was frustrating.
On the way down our group encountered a women who was having intense abdominal pain( Possible appendicitis or Kidney stone). She made it down to crater rock and basically collapsed. One of our group is PMR and another a paramedic. Wasn't much we could do, we ended up calling 911 and let them know she couldn't make it down to Palmer and she was going to need a rescue. We got down to the parking lot at 1 and the S&R and paramedics were just then assembling. Felt bad for her, she was in a lot of pain. I'm waiting to hear back from my buddy about her condition and what actually was wrong.