Brown, Cannon, and Essex

Submitted by Bob on Sun, 11/14/2004 - 21:01
In search of ice today, we ended up finding lots of water running down rock. First we walked up to the north (left) gulley on Mount Brown, which still had a good deal of water pouring onto a bit of old rotten ice-not in yet. Driving toward Avalanche we got a glimpse of how the climbs on Cannon looked, running water and a bit of thin ice. Most likely will need a handfull of cold days still. Continuing to Essex we walked into Bushmen falls, and found ice! Thin, wet, and nonexistant protection. We TR'd from top anchor for the afternoon and were loving it. -Good luck & enjoy

Things are pretty meager in these two areas. Seen some really thin lines through binoculars. Diffinetly need some cold to come down from the north. Not sure what is up avalanche and snyder basins.

Climbed Essex on 10/4/2004 with three other people. Walked in from the Izaak Walton Inn, it took us about an hour to get to where we jumped off of the trail and another hour to make it up the slope to the base of the climb. It would have been faster if we would have brought our x-country skis. The ice was well formed and plastic from the warm temps. We only had time for each of us to climb it once and then we glissaded down to the creek and hiked out. If they get much more snow avalanche danger will be high.
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