[TR] - Death Picnic 12/22/2011

[wayne]

Trip: - Death Picnic

 

Date: 12/22/2011

 

Trip Report:

 

Always on the lookout for steep ice, I found 3 friends ( Tom S., Daniel J, and Powderhound) who were looking for their first outing. After much taunting on this site, and oogleing over Jeff Streets photos from last year, we headed out for it. It proved to be an exhilarating climb, well worth the drive and 1 hr approach. Bring on the season! More on my site

 

 

 

Gear Notes:

Screws, some shorter ones too

 

Approach Notes:

Upper right Baker ski area parking lot. Up valley to the west to Herman /Table saddle. Go across super steep slope around Table and go farther that the first ice you see.

 

[sepultura]

Sweet! nice work guys-glad somebody got after this.

A pretty stiff first lead of the season Daniel! impressive I would say....

 

What grade would you say this climb is at right now?

 

[Whatcomboy]

Looking good guys. Here's a pic of Pan Dome I took today as we were heading back. Don't know who this was but he cruised it. We climbed some of the short pitches to the right.