Yellowjacket Tower 2006?

[rbwen]

Anybody been up there yet this year? How much snow is there to deal with? Route conditions?

 

We're headed up there this Friday.

 

rbwen

[catbirdseat]

I had a look at it from the road. There wasn't much snow at all.

[slaphappy]

I had a look at it from the road. There wasn't much snow at all.

 

thanks.

 

There is a bit of snow on the approach trail and the "gully" is still choked but the route will be dry.

 

There is sooo much better shit to go climb...

 

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[larrythellama]

There is sooo much better shit to go climb...

 

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hardly.

[rbwen]

Climbed it today. A moderate amount of snow in the approach gully, enough to keep the dirt and rocks at bay. We were thankful for our ice axes. Met the goat on the ledge before the hidden gully. The dihedral pitch was very wet because of the melt from a snow patch at the base of the summit pitch. We donated a handful of slings, biners, and quick links to back up the rappels. Many were completely gone. It was fun, beautiful weather, and a long hike for a short couple of pitches, but it was a good alpine experience, not necessarily a rock climbing expedition. There were many ticks and we saw a HUGE rockslide off the backside, between YJT and the slope about 100 yards away. Boulders the size of the small cars crashing and sliding down the back gully.

 

Saw a few people on Icicle Buttress and Mounties Dome but that was it.

 

rbwen