Constance

[Ishmael]

Any one been up to Lake/Mt Constance latetly? I am looking at climbing the West Arete and would like to know how much snow there is. I would love to get away with just tennis shoes but the latested TR is from late May. Thanks for any info.

 

Chad

[Drederek]

this is a month old, from the lake, can't be much left.

[Ishmael]

alright. Thanks for the pic.

[Ishmael]

As an update, we did climb the west arete on 7/20. That was the third time I have climbed it. No pics as my friend packed his SLR up to the lake and then left it on all night... and it does not have an auto off function... Easily done with tennis shoes as there was just one short section of steepish snow that had to be gone up during the descent and that could have been avoided as well with a small bit of effort. And as reported in other TR's, bikes are nice for the 5 miles of road after the washout. It made the trip from the trail head to the car fun even though were were tired.

[goatboy]

What's the deal with the road conditions/washout here?

[narrowarrow]

As of last weekend, snow starts at the lake and continues on up Avy canyon. I carried boots to there. (incidently, I was going to post a lost coffee plunger (Big Sky) and offer beer for its return from campsite #5- 604 5495)

 

We took bikes to ride the 4.5 past the washout- this is the way...

 

North shoot was in good shape as was the finger traverse. East side snow conditions were pretty poor. No summit for us.

 

Have fun up there.