drips in canyon |
Light to moderate bush bashing up the creek with boot to knee deep snow; I enjoyed the cool variety of short ice pillars in the main drainage, but I did not play on these as I was gunning for Heavenly Bush. About 1.5 hours in I reached the drainage with Heavenly Bush, the approach was mostly running water over steep scree and slabs, only the vertical drop offs had ice formed.
I climbed about 100 vertical metres out of the drainage, mostly on patches of ice over slabs with running water. I climbed 3 steep steps, with good ice, but these had open pools of water above. The route was not formed. I bailed and walked off in steep trees to climber's right. Good exploration day and some good exercise, but no real climbing.