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Lillooet: it's pretty much all in, a bit thin.

Thompson: everything but Happy Boy and Crucible are up

Fraser Canyon: mostly in, Jackass and Sailor Bar are good to go. Saw Water Music and Under The Big Top. Krypto Column looks thin, Riddler has a narrow spot, Mr Freeze good to go. The "super secret" unclimbed American Creek pillar is touching down, ssssh.

 

Hope: its all in. Mousetrap good to go. Jet Lag in, The Cure very thin. Medusa not very fat but all there.

 

Fraser Valley: Seabird Falls, Tailwind, Bridal Falls, White Wedding, Never a Bride all in altho Tailwind is very thin in places. Lots of unclimbed ice coming in around Seabird and Tailwind. Hells Lake Falls by the weigh-station is mixed icicles but not yetr a leadable route.

 

Highway 3: two parties reported on Sumallo Bluffs on Sunday. There is now a log bridge. One maybe-new route done, rope stretching multipitch WI5 that looks like a 3+ from the road but is steeper than it looks.

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hey dru, I don't know much about this area, but driving back home today there was a huge concentration of climbs between boston bar and yale, with more ice as you get closer to yale, on both sides of the valley, but especially on the other side of the rail tracks. Some of them seemed real real big. Has all this stuff been done?

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Entropy (pic attached) at the Soo Bluffs north of Whistler is in, but pretty thin. Nearly every screw was tied off, including those in the belay anchor hellno3d.gif. Take your stubbies and your old picks!

 

None of the other lines on the bluffs were in.

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Note on Honeyman: As soon as it gets near 0C it starts to collapse in on itself pretty quickly due to the sheer volume of water flowing underneatth, and can be pretty sketch after a few warm days. Not to throw out any bad mojo, but I'd consider it one of the more dangerous routes around Lilly due to this unpredictablility. Just something to consider as you venture up in warming conditions. Fun climb, though.

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