Northeast Couloir AI 2 4th Class

 
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High Sierra, California USA


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North Couloir(Right), North Peak, Mono County

by 0ri0n
Saturday July 26, 2014 5:17pm
One pitch was beautiful alpine blue ice, the top and steeper part was becoming rotten and interesting fast.

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Get it while its good, watch for projectiles.

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0ri0n is a trad climber from El Portal.

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Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
  Jul 26, 2014 - 08:34pm PT
pretty minimal... nice TR
amazing how late in the year for that ice.
adikted

Boulder climber
Tahooooeeeee
  Jul 26, 2014 - 10:20pm PT
We'll done...another month or two and it should be bulletproof...hopefully!!
Bad Climber

Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
  Jul 27, 2014 - 05:53am PT
Nice pic. I did that route in the fall many years ago--tough blue ice the whole way. My sense of the route--and this is my personal preference--is that it needed to be either a) steeper or b) just a snow climb, i.e. do it earlier in the season. There's something just a pain in the ass about 40 degree-ish hard ice. I seems to me a big hassle and not that fun. When ice gets steeper, the whole game changes, but at the lower angles, ugh.

Well done.

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The Northeast Couloir of North Peak.
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