Flew into Extinguisher Tower Aug 11th and started walking up the Robson
Glacier at 14:00. Snow cover on the glacier about 1/2 km uphill. Good
travel into the Robson/Resplendent basin to camp at 18:30. Suspiscious
looking black object at the very bottom of the Robson Icefall is a black
garbage bag full of human feces.
Easy up to the Robson/Resplendent col Aug 12th via the Resplendent
slopes. One of our team felt a little overwhelmed by the whole affair
there so we opted to camp and give the Kain Face of Robson a miss. Clear
skies and an excellent freeze that night.
Aug 13th, perfect cramponing up Mt Resplendent. Class 2? slab off of the
very summit west slopes, 30cm crown, 50cm flanks, 100m across. Class 1+
surface slab out of the top 1/3 center of the Kain Face, some stepping
down. Everything was welded with frost for us. No runneling yet on the
Kain Face, Fuhrer Ridge is a snow climb bottom to top. Descended to the
Robson Pass campground that pm.
Kain icefall has been passed by at least one party, possibly two others
while we were leaving.
Walked out Aug 14th. A bridge at the North end of Kinney Lake washed out
and necessitated about five river wadings, some knee deep, over about
1/2 km. Take sandals if you're walking in or out. Thunderstormy Aug 13th
pm-14th pm.
Happy trails
Barry Blanchard
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