[TR] Conditions update - 5/7/2012

[Vernman23]

Trip: Conditions update -

 

Date: 5/7/2012

 

Trip Report:

Ran up and C2C the triple couloirs yesterday. Road is almost all melted out, maybe 100 feet total of snow. Trail is mostly all snow but a pretty good boot pack gets soft in tr afternoon though. Lake is still frozen which saved me a lot of time on approach. Runnels were ok probably about as thin as you could get to calling "in". Wouldn't bring to many ice screws. I thought that someone would have been up them on Saturday or before me on Sunday. No such luck I had to kick in new steps the whole way up. Gets old when your alone.

 

On the way out I saw people skinning up colchuck. Prussik looked snow free. The north face proper routes on dragontail look climbable. Was able to find melted out parts of the lake to get water. Asgard was All snow as expected. Water in the basin is probably possible to find during the sunny time of day. NEC on colchuck looks straight forward.

 

Over all a good trip 12 hours C2C. Surprised to not see more people up there

 

Gear Notes:

Two Nomics food water crampons

 

Approach Notes:

Road snow free but gated. Lake still frozen.

[ARob]

Thanks for the beta

[Dane]

Awesome work Vern!

20+ miles...6500' gain? 12hrs....nice.

 

Road/gate is scheduled to be open Friday some time...

 

call and bug them to unlock it late tomorrow afternoon

(the gate keeper has Wednesday and Thurday off)

 

509 548 6977

[Dannible]

I just called and the road is still closed. They said they are waiting for the snow to melt. Since we all know that it is good to go, lets follow Dane's advice and keep calling in until they do it.