20101227 Lightning Couloir

Post by **Taco** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 6:01 pm

Johnny and I set off to do some stuff along ACH early this morning. Turns out, ACH is closed to about a mile east of Vincent Gap. No bueno. We went to Wanker Flat and decided to see if Lightning Couloir was in any sort of shape.

We had plenty of snow for climbing the route, though it had not yet consolidated. We had a few stretches of ice, which made for some fun moves, with the rest being knee deep powder and some consolidated snow and snice.

Pitchers:

Johnny

Time to start swimming

Lightning

Consolidated

Spindrift pouring down all day

Spindrift engulfs Johnny

Powder made for some silliness

Climbing up the start of Safety Dance

O HAI

Upper part of route

Johnny and the route

End

The route

Going down

How did that get there?

Now for ACH to open...

He219 · Post by **He219** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 7:01 pm

Nice, guys!
Now for some freshies on Wednesday!!

lilbitmo · Post by **lilbitmo** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 7:16 pm

Nice work Taco and Johnny - no rock assult either

Season is starting to take shape

obie · Post by **obie** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 8:01 pm

Upper part of route

Arraggh....excellent!

norma r · Post by **norma r** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 8:06 pm

snice is nice! 8)

Taco happy?

Post by **Taco** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 8:53 am

Getting there.

ACH must open for maximum happy.

Johnny Bronson · Post by **Johnny Bronson** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 7:12 am

=D

Please ACH open!

Snow level dropping to around 2,000,temps lowering rapidly...Sounds just about that time to freeze some waterfalls haha

(blame photobucket for any screwy pics)

Post by **Taco** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:29 am

Note my new high speed headlamp. 8)

Burchey · Post by **Burchey** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 12:17 pm

O HAI

There's just something sweet about a stare-off-at-a-random-angle-mouth-open-winter-mountain picture

mve · Post by **mve** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 10:23 pm

Sweet! Nice umbilicals you rigged up there Ryan -- nice job!

GigaMike · Post by **GigaMike** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 11:25 pm

I see ice in them pictures

Post by **Taco** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 8:02 am

Just a tiny bit, but there will soon be more in the range.

Thanks guys.

MVE, those took a lot of time to make.