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[TR] Snoqualmie Mtn - NY Gulley 1/16/2007


Blake

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Trip: Snoqualmie Mtn - NY Gulley

 

Date: 1/16/2007

 

Trip Report:

Early in the week, Frosty-the-tradman and I tried to climb NY Gulley. We made it just past the crux bit, but then the snow/ice that had been pretty good, became a deep and completely useless covering of sugar snow on everything. We rapped off some pins and other gear back to the base. Here are some pretty pictures. Neither of us is much of a mixed climber, so someone with more experience and Winter skills might have carried on just fine. It was part scary, and part fun.

-Blake

 

P.S. finding the base of the route, even in the dark, was pretty easy, even though we were just visiting climbers from the north.

 

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Wayne, the ice was never thick enough for a screw, but for most of the first 3 pitches, there was fairly good tool placements. It made the sudden contrast to loose sugar snow that much more difficult, plus it hid all the rock features underneath.

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