[MCR] this house of sky - Bourgeau left.

Subject: [MCR] this house of sky - Bourgeau left.
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:15:31 -0800
Was working today in the North Ghost.
This house of sky.
The route is a nice outing a step up from a walk with a pretty stout 30 feet of ice in the upper bowl. A very nice outing and well worth the time. considering the conditions, snow on the route and usable fix anchors, don't bother with the walk off we it took less than one hour from the very top.

The road in was fine, some deep ruts by the first steel bridge but no big deal they can be easily avoided to the right. Some freezing rain was comming down as we drove back up^the hill about 15:00. If you go in to the NGoast, ask some currently well establish yurt dwellers for coffee (GBU) location.

Bourgeau left, spoke to some friends (experienced ice climbers) who climbed the route today, they did not have access to this forum. The route as Jessie had described a while back and Mike did yesterday, is maybe not worth the current lead, there is lots of good ice in other locations right now. Other south facing routes will be suffering the same faith, top of Cascade got baked in this last sun session and the end of mix master is now a wet "dry tooling" passage in between the fixed pins on the last pitch. But a bridge too far, for climbing in the sun, is awesome the walk is short, 45minutes, and contrary to the guide book info it can clearly be scene from the road while driving north.

Cheers.
P.Delaney

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