Coop and I marched up and did Twin Falls today. It was yet another spectacular Hyalite day. Snowing off and on, clouds in and out. Here is what I found.
Twin Right is in good shape. It's thin so gear is tough but the sticks are good and it's not wet other than snow sticking to it.
Twin Left is climbable but has a big hole and doesn't look too fun until the snow sticking to it gets iced over.
The trail we followed to Twin cut into the upper gully too soon and it was something of a wallow going straight up. As winter progresses this will be miserable, if not dangerous. On the way down we tried to beat one in more through the trees on the climber's right side of the gully. We didn't follow the best line so the next party up there should pay heed to the two trails visible right now and try and work out the best line up through the trees and then straight across under Cleo's.
Cleo's is coming in nicely. Depending on the direct sun it gets, it should form up fast. Same goes for all the routes on that wall: The Shuffle, The Shimmey, 21 Stitches and The Matriarch (is close to being formed right now).
Dribbles isn't in but is trying.
RFM looks climbable although certainly hard.
Over Easy looks climbable but didn't get a great look. It's looking similar to G2 right now.
Curtains and Slot Corner and Land of the Lost are also trying but not quite.
Dialectric Breakdown looks fully in and good to go. This early season route will slowly disappear and will be gone before New Year's (at least in my experience, this is the case). Get on it!
Didn't see anything around the Mummies.
Nothing on the Unnamed Wall looked in. The Black Magic Wall is looking good. BM itself is probably climbable right now but most people will want to wait for it to grow some more.
Zach Attack is probably the best route to do right now. It looks good.
G2 is looking better than Hangover or G1. I'd suggest staying off G1 until it fills in more, giving it a foundation to really start growing.
That's it for now. Get out there and have fun!
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Re: November 1 Conditions
Great update: thanks guys!
11/6-8?
How are things looking for the weekend? Seems like it warmed up a little there during the week. Anybody have any recent observations?
Went up to try zack attack
Went up to try zack attack today 11/5. Somebody snagged it a day or so ago, with success, but we opted to not climb it, for fear of the poorly adhered ice of the first pitch, and what it might do to us, and what everyone else might do to us if we knocked it all off. a few days of cold weather would be nice, because at 6 am it was like the Bahamas up there, and stuff was melting quick. Some things are climbable though, like g2, if that's helpful.