Box Canyon

[G-spotter]

went in to Box Canyon with Stemalot today to try out some new toys

 

1m of powder snow over everything

 

sunny side routes falling apart. constant entertainment. almost the full length of "festering toadstools" fell off, in a five-stage process, leaving wet rock behind

 

we climbed/soloed about on the first pitch of grim reaper. mostly steep wallowing with about 6-7m of exposed ice. ice was aerated and funky. the second pitch through the notch seemed like it maybe wanted to avalanche. third pitch looked good from below, very featured but blue.

 

had designs on seeing what was in on emerald wall but the view from grim reaper looked like the answer was "not much".

 

the ski out in climbing boots was moderately amusing. more flotation for all the powpow would have been useful. with skinny old skis and whatnot it pretty much took a depth charge to get going.

[jstreet]

Where's box canyon?

[jon]

Coquihalla Hwy, a few miles err kilometers west of the pass.

Edited February 27, 2012 by jon

[G-spotter]

Deep fresh powder is much better than a bouldering mat when it comes to falling off dry-tool bouldering moves, and you don't have to worry about putting holes in the mat either. I did take a glancing hammer blow to the helmet though. Stemalot came off from a considerable height and went armpit-deep into a drift.