JDCH Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Do you think the Avy danger will be too scary on the approach? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDCH Posted May 12, 2012 Author Share Posted May 12, 2012 Thinking of heading up tonight and climbing tomorrow AM, until I read the NWAC forecast, I have only been up there in later June, I am sort of assuming it will be a no go up that gully? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckaroo Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 I would wait a week, avy is too high. couple years back a lot of big trees were taken out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selkirk Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 I would wait a week, avy is too high. couple years back a lot of big trees were taken out. That was an impressive slide. Carried all the way down to within about 2 miles of the trailhead, way below the tree line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Good2Go Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 I skied the B-day tour and Kangaroo Ridge couloir on Saturday. Snow was consolidated (corn) pretty much everywhere. Cornices were a non issue as well. Spires are mostly snow free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckaroo Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 Look at NWAC at the off season avy conditions, large parts of the back bowl can slide off. the spires also have these isolated pockets of snow around the summits that melt and slide off, not huge but plenty big enough to wipe you off the climbs. Climbed Liberty Crack early one year (early June?) and heard a couple of large pockets coming off, then we did the Medussas' roof variation and had to cross one of the pockets, scary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin27 Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 As anyone been up the Becky Route yet this year? Looking to introduce my wife to multipitch but wanted to know how much snow is still on the ledges Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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