Climbed Reality Check on the ski hill yesterday. Easy drive to the
bottom of the chair. Then laborious trailbreaking to the climb. Snow is
thigh deep in sheltered locations and very rotten. Surface hoar is big
and widespread below timberline. At -3, the ice was very good. The climb
is still a bit chandeliered, but thick enough for long screws. The last
5 m was dripping heavily and overhanging so I abstained. I have no
information on where the rain stops and the snow starts, but anticipate
very unstable conditions once there is a load.
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Christoph Dietzfelbinger
Mountain Guide, Bear Mountaineering and Burnie Glacier Chalet
Box 4222
Smithers, B.C. V0J 2N0 Canada
tel. 250-847-3351 fax: 250-847-2854
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