brianbauer Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Trip: Dragontail Peak - Triple Couloirs Date: 5/10/2015 Trip Report: Conditions report. Super warm last weekend...heard rock fall all night and almost called it. Started climbing around 4:30am and the snow in the couloirs was actually much better than expected. Runnels were still in, but it'll be a mixed climb shortly. Gear Notes: 6 screws (used all) 2 KB (used none, party behind us used a bunch) 2 Pickets (used both) Set of nuts (used one nut) Single rack .3-2 (used all except #2, if soloing the couloirs, only bring medium cams) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckaroo Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Nice pics. So did you get any rock or ice fall while you were on the climb? Amazing how fast the lake melts out, I climbed TC just 2 weeks ago and a skier went right across the lake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diepj Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 We were the third group on the route that day. There was a major rock or icefall that happened right behind us in the first couloir. It came down from overhead on the left flank. Other than that we didn't get anything significant other than what the two teams ahead were knocking off of the runnels. I also didn't hear any rockfall overnight, even though our tent was only about 30m from OP. Guess I was sleeping soundly! Later in the day we saw and heard a few bomb as we descended from the pass and hiked out. We used a couple pins. In fact we used some of everything on the climb - slung a natural feature, 3 pins, 2 hexes, a tri-cam, 2 nuts, 2 cams, 1 picket! All in 150m of climbing - we solo'd to the runnels and in the couloirs. In the stuff we protected I didn't see anything larger than a medium to smallish nut or cam/hex to maybe .75 C4 size max. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianbauer Posted May 19, 2015 Author Share Posted May 19, 2015 diepj, yeah we weren't sleeping well that night It was mostly small stuff coming down (not necessarily in TC), but made me nervous...due to being a pansy. Anyway, had a couple rocks zing past right about where diepj described the large rockfall. Other than that, nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olymand Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 Great pictures. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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