Snow Creek Wall Leavenworth

[Cds26]

Looking at the forecast this week, it looks like rain saturday, but sunday is nice. I'm not from Leavenworth, but I know the rock stays pretty dry and dries quickly. Is it likely the Snow Creek Wall could dry before afternoon?

[telemarker]

I just saw it yesterday. There's still about 2 feet of snow and rime ice covering the entire face. Check back in June. Feel free to share my response to everyone you know in the Seattle metro area and beyond.

[Woodcutter]

...what about the army of ticks & the indigenous 6' crag rat with attitude, dem too!

[genepires]

in case you are unable to read BS, the above is BS.

except for the ticks.

[telemarker]

I just saw it yesterday. There's still about 2 feet of snow and rime ice ticks covering the entire face. Check back in June. Feel free to share my response to everyone you know in the Seattle metro area and beyond.

[CaleHoopes]

Rime ice? Grab the tools and lets go mixed climbing!

 

Ticks require different tools.

[G-spotter]

If I pull on an in situ tick to get through the crux, is that aid or a feature of the route?

[ajpederson]

If you can hit it on the way down, it's in on the way up.

[matt_warfield]

Goats? Ticks are probably included for free.

Edited April 5, 2014 by matt_warfield

[cfire]

Was on the wall today. While tick checks with your significant other could lead to a romantic evening, I would recommend shaving yourself clean head to toe and wearing a Mr Clean outfit on Snow Creek wall right now. We ran out of there after one route while swatting ourselves silly.

 

The dudes having the epic on the wall are surely anemic by now.

[Pete_H]

You should have eaten some of these:

 

 

http://www.nexgardfordogs.com/Pages/index.aspx

[Eric K]

Any chance the amount of ticks per square foot has gone down yet? Really want to get out there but don't feel like brushing ticks off me every few minutes.

 

Eric

[Matt Lemke]

I did Outer Space on May 3rd and the ticks were not too bad. Every once in awhile I would pull one off my foot

[montypiton]

climbing around Goat Dome on May 5, my partners and I cleaned off about a dozen or so ticks apiece for the day. With snow barely gone, tick season is really just getting started... but SCW has a less brushy approach, so perhaps less exposure to ticks... just have your partner go first!

Edited May 11, 2014 by montypiton