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Any ice in the North Cascades yet?


CB Thomas

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Tons of thin ice up high the last few days. These flows as seen yesterday were probably climbable but IDK if they were thick enough for solid screws. The low angle stuff I was crossing in the sun would have taken the odd 10cm screw but still had running water too. Snowing up there right now.

 

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From last weekend...

 

There is some ice in the Colchuck Lake area. Whether it is "in condition" may depend on your definition of "in condition". We bailed on the North Buttress Couloir because we found walking on loose rock with 6 inches of loose snow to be annoying and time consuming and were not looking forward to drytooling for 1000 ft in a whiteout. After bailing we played around on some frozen-waterfall-looking-things at the toe of the glacier.

 

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Paulina playing on some steep ice by Laurel Fan, on Flickr

 

No, we did not actually climb the steep thing. We just poked it long enough for facebook profile photos and made hot chocolate with some of the icicles that fell off. The unsteep thing next to it was more climbable but not to the point of taking screws unless they have started making 8cm screws.

 

(more photos from the trip including overview photos of CBR, Dragontail, and Colchuck if you click through above)

 

There are a handful of TRs from this area last year November... comparing photos, it seems there was more ice and less snow last year.

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