Dielectric Breakdown

Submitted by marcus on Thu, 12/31/2009 - 09:20

Climbed DB on 12/30: Still touching down(no pullups req'd!).  Get er soon tho, cuz she's getting kinda anorexic.  Fresh bootpack from 2nd clearing...

Climbed Dialetric yesterday (Sunday) under beautiful, blue-bird skies!  The ice was still touching all the way down, although a bit more thin than the pictures posted here.  With the warm temps it was dripping ever so slightly but I don't think it will be around much longer.


We hiked up to land of the lost from the top of Dialetric and found interesting snow.  Several thin ice crusts separated by a few inches of facets.  the top 7 inches were really heating up with the sun.  Didn't experience any collapsing but, regardless, we roped up for a couple snow traverses .  Land of the Lost is beautiful right now, and in the sun we climbed sans shirt!!! Great day!