The Gash
Chris Hamilton and I climbed three mixed pitches in the gash yesterday. lot's of ice, but poor bonding still. A huge block has fallen off the second pitch and changed the character of the climbing significantly (bring a 3.5/4 camalot and a love for choss).
Most of all, pay carefull attention to the snowpack on approach; it was pretty borderline yesterday and could turn bad fast with any sort of wind event...hope for warm temps to bake that shit in and fatten up the pitches.
The Gash
I decided that Chris's pics gave too much of a bluebird impression...
the good news is that even though the wind is howling over here today, I can't see any snow moving up high, so it's looking like yesterday baked things in nicely.
The Gash
Here?s a couple pics from our climb on Sunday. Hopefully this warm weather will solidify the snowpack and fatten the ice up there!!
The Gash runs up the center of this picture
Post-holing on the approach
Looking down from the top of the first pitch
Pete working the crux
Looking up to the 3rd pitch