Ricksecker point (the blue room)

[bryce398]

I was thinking about going up to Rainier and top rope soloing Ricksecker point AKA the Blue Room. I was wondering if any one has checked out the Ice there this year or been there in the past and what they thought of it?

[5.12Dreamer]

This is perhaps not too helpful but something 'til you hear more:

 

I was in the park on New Year's (an infamous day). From the Stevens Canyon Road, at the 90 degree bend to Reflection Lakes, you can see the cliff from a distance. But I'm not sure if you can see The Blue Room from there?

 

I noted from this considerable distance, a fair amount of ice, though nowhere near climable then. To give it a ROM, I would say what I was looking at was half formed then--not even top-ropeable but offering promise if conditions continued in the right direction.

 

Since then it got warmer, then it got quite a bit colder and wetter--so maybe...

[wayne]

There is going to be a ton of new snow there too. I want to try Strobach, but I think everything is a wallow.