EISPIRATEN

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...

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

Nice work Taco and Johnny - no rock assult either Season is starting to take shape

Upper part of route



Arraggh....excellent!

snice is nice! 8)

Taco happy?

Getting there.

ACH must open for maximum happy.

=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)

Note my new high speed headlamp. 8)

O HAI


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

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

I see ice in them pictures

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

Thanks guys.

MVE, those took a lot of time to make.