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[TR] Liberty Bell - Beckey Route 5/10/2015


Jeff Aslan

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Trip: Liberty Bell - Beckey Route

 

Date: 5/10/2015

 

Trip Report:

Haven't seen any reports on the Beckey Route yet this year, but figured it would probably be mostly melted out by now, and sure enough we had the route to ourselves and found it in pretty good shape. All of the pitches were dry with the only snow encountered was a little in the descent gulley from the top of pitch 3.

 

The approach gully still had good coverage. It had softened up by the time we were heading down at 3:00 pm.

 

 

Gear Notes:

Crampons, ice axe for the gully. Climbing shoes can be worn from the start of the route back down to the gully.

 

Approach Notes:

The summer trail is still well covered and hard to follow, the best way up to the gully was through the open drainage heading climbers from the parking lot.

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Just some light mountaineering boots (Sportiva Trango) and some horizontal front point steel crampons. I felt pretty solid in that combo when the snow was frozen in the morning. I didn't bring them but Gaiters would have been useful for the descent after it softened up in the afternoon.

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