[MCR] Stanley

Subject: [MCR] Stanley
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:24:36 -0700
Climbed Stanley today July 27. It's in very good nick, well except for the last 
100m of crotch deep wading up suddenly isothermal snow on a 40 degree slope, 
which made life moderately terrifying for about 10 minutes.

We summitted at 8am and thought we were early enough, but an hour earlier would 
have been nice. Near perfect snow to that point, but the upper slopes had been 
getting sun for longer, a bit more east facing, steeper, all made for near 
light-speed changing snow conditions after a warm night with only a radiation 
freeze.

Keep your head up and your feet on the ground.

Mark