Jordan and I climbed Crystal Tear on March 3. From the top of the route we spied a deep gully system on Pigeon Mountain. From our vantage point it appeared this gully system had a lot of water ice. We were so pumped we headed up the gully on March 18. Jordan and I we joined by his good buddies Dan and Farzad.
Well we got skunked, the ice was missing! We only found steep snow and an interesting gully system. No indication of ice anywhere.
Fun hike up. We did climb (M2) through several pinch points in the gully and did have to traverse out of the gully to bypass a couple of overhanging cliff bands.
We did descend the gully directly, required four steep and overhanging rappels; sort of like winter canyoneering ;-)
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