Climbed the route yesterday with
two guests. Good shape throughout with only a few sections of thin,
brittle ice on the first pitch, full length screws everywhere
else. Everything after that was wet and plastic. There is a
fair amount of snow on the trees and we had the occasional "tree bomb" come down
on us. Well packed trail into base of route and it looked like quite a few
people were using the climbers right hand gully to descend - we rapped the
route. Stout and Hi Test looked good but I could not see a trail going up
to them from the top pitch of Guinness. Looked like a lot of
work to get there.
Cheers
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