Taluscat Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Trip: Mt. Baker - Pan dome falls Date: 1/6/2009 Trip Report: D-tached flake and I spent the afternoon climbing this local climb with snow rapidly accumilating and COPIOUS amounts of spindrift accompining us. We broke the route into two pitches for the sake of both wanting to lead- apprx: 35m each. After excavating a small cave in a large snow deposit below the route climbers right(created by the white poo) I lead off on pitch one 3+ with thin ice shitty sugar and useless protection while being barraged by HEAVY S/D..after bringing up Dflake he then led better ice with acceptable pro- (gr4) and belayed me topside,a quick rap returned us to our 3/4 buried cave and hot drinks..fun day- no porn because it would have just been all white,HA! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 nice. my experience with pandome is the pro is usually crap until you're on vert ice. nice outing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genepires Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 I know of a guy who ripped out 3 screws from the upper half on a fall, landed in the middle snow patch to slow him down a little and then all the way to the ground. LUckily there was the usual huge pow pile at the base so he walked away. Without knowing about this, I climbed it the next day and got his tool back which was in the middle snow field. Damn that thing is scary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiderman Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Pan Dome is always a February outing for me. It gets fat in mid to late Feb. with the freeze-thaw cycles during the day and night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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