murr Posted September 10, 2004 Share Posted September 10, 2004 I'm toying with trying the Finger this weekend...weather looks iffy but, I also have no idea what the route is like with late season conditions? Any idea about exposed ice, how open & broken-up are the crevasses higher up? Any ifo would be great.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc Posted September 10, 2004 Share Posted September 10, 2004 That route is best done in the spring. This time of the year it is going to possible be a shooting gallery, or a nasty scree climb. The two times I have been up that route it was in May and early June. Also the transtion for the glacier to the finger might not go. You best bet is to call the climbing rangers and get some beta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracked Posted September 10, 2004 Share Posted September 10, 2004 Be my guest, but the gully is discontinuous and looks very very nasty. Bring a helmet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murr Posted September 10, 2004 Author Share Posted September 10, 2004 Cracked & Co., Â Discontinous & Scree? So, the finger melts-out completely in places? Â I did the route two years ago but, it was early in the season and as you guys said...it was continous snow. Â Am I dreamn' here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothrop Posted September 10, 2004 Share Posted September 10, 2004 It's gotta be very discontinuous by now. In mid-July it was already spanned a few hundred feet up by a twenty-foot band of muddy scree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracked Posted September 10, 2004 Share Posted September 10, 2004 Ugly. You couldn't pay me to go up there right now, and I want that route. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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