Upper Flanders

Submitted by BozemanIce on Sun, 11/21/2004 - 21:22
We hiked toward upper flanders today to try to find ice miser. We found a few spots with only a few feet of ice down from the top. Not sure if we were totally in the right spot but if you head there don't pay attention to small foot paths. We turned around a bunch looking for the climbs so if you follow our paths you'll probably find yourself walking in circles like we did. Just beware and make your own path off of the main trail. Killer pillar touched down and looked fat, big sleep and bobo like look in.

We also spent some time walking around in circles in Flanders, but on Saturday. We found "Champagne Sherbert" to be in good condition. "Flander's Field" was not in (almot all bare rock), and "Fact or Flander" was not in either (the top pillars were about 4 feet from touching down, and the low angle section below the pillars but above the bolt ladder had only tiny patches of ice here and there).

We climbed Champagne Sherbert & Slot on 11/21...both were in good shape. Did not locate High Crimes on traverse, but it looked in from the trail(thin on top). On 11/22 we did Bobo Like, left good bootpack(via Killer Pillar traverse) starting about 10 min past Champagne cutoff. Assess the slopes on the last 300 ft of approach - we encountered pretty loaded conditions. The crux pillar is in and brittle...don't hit it, hook it! We redressed the upper anchors, please leave the biners for future climbers. And no, the last pitch wasn't in... Killer Pillar looks in, early season steep! Big Sleep has ice all the way down, albeit way thin chandelier on the lower half.
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