Mt Baker Ice Report

[Phil K]

My buddy JeffS and I went up searching for ice at Baker yesterday. Beauty day- clear, temps in the high 20's, not much wind. We snowshoed up to see if West Table 3 looked in, that seemed to be mostly snow and not worth the walk. Later that day talked to two B'ham dudes in the parking lot; they had ski toured all around Table and said they didn't see anything formed up.

Since Table looked out, we headed down to Pan Dome. That was in pretty skinny shape, with the main falls looking climbable, but sparse for protection. Jeff actually did manage to pull off the lead which involved some moderately desperate eighty degree unconsolidated snow and a bunch of tied off screws. Great top rope problems though.