[MCR] Arterial Spurt

Subject: [MCR] Arterial Spurt
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:30:29 -0700
Feb 11, the route is still there, but thinning in from the edges. 10 and 12 cm screws more useful on the bottom pitches than mid length screws.

Winds flipping between strong upslope and downslope gusts most of the day, calmer in the pm. There are new snow slabs aproning the rockbands and steeper pitches. A slab avalanche ran over the climb sometime in the last 10 days? hard to tell as the debris is drifted in, but there are old slab chunks sitting on top of the climb.

Approached in bootsoles.

Happy trails

Barry Blanchard
Mountain Guide
Yamnuska Mountain Adventures
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