ursaeagle

Nice work! We were on the Ptarmigan this past weekend and hit that nice weather from White Rocks to just beyond Cub Lake. Coming across that cornice at the top of Cache Col in a whiteout was certainly a bit of a shock! How did you deal with the lower cornice (just before getting onto the cache glacier)?

Yup, that would be us. Thanks for the pics!

The moats appear to be melting out at this point (at least as of this past weekend!) Both getting onto the Boston from the col just to the right of Sharkfin (with the snow gully then crap gully approach), then getting off the glacier to the upper col. There are 4 bivy sites at the upper col, and access to snow to melt for water was fairly easy. We were able to bypass both snow patches on the left without snow travel (well, three steps in the lower snow patch with our rock shoes on). That said, the 5.6 "crux" right at the start of the ridge was by no means the hardest part, and the upper part of the ridge above the upper snowfield did not appear to be 5.0. "Sketchy Bullshit" indeed!