The Gash

Submitted by Pete Tapley on Mon, 10/22/2007 - 10:50
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.

Here?s a couple pics from our climb on Sunday. Hopefully this warm weather will solidify the snowpack and fatten the ice up there!! [img]http://montanaice.com/forums/user_images/GASH_0002.jpg[/img] The Gash runs up the center of this picture [img]http://montanaice.com/forums/user_images/GASH_0005.jpg[/img] Post-holing on the approach [img]http://montanaice.com/forums/user_images/GASH_0006.JPG[/img] Looking down from the top of the first pitch [img]http://montanaice.com/forums/user_images/GASH_0008.JPG[/img] Pete working the crux [img]http://montanaice.com/forums/user_images/GASH_0009.JPG[/img] Looking up to the 3rd pitch

I decided that Chris's pics gave too much of a bluebird impression... [img]http://montanaice.com/forums/user_images/IMG_0020_re-sized.jpg[/img] [img]http://montanaice.com/forums/user_images/IMG_0026_re-sized.jpg[/img] [img]http://montanaice.com/forums/user_images/IMG_0025_re-sized.jpg[/img] 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.
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