This is on approach to the bowl above (west of) Wall Lake. The climb is directly above the red dot.
It's a long way to go for 90m of grade 2+ ice (especially when you consider the severe avalanche danger).
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Here is another picture of the climb. There are actually five climbs shown here. From left to right, they are
"Midnight Squeeze", "Midnight Sluffer", "Midnight Monkey", "Midnight Rendevous", and
"Midnight Snack". I've placed dots under all of them, with two dots under the one we climbed.
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This is looking back at Kevin coming across the bowl. Notice all of the avalanche debris between us and Kevin.
The reason for staying out on the far side of the bowl is to minimize the amount of time you spend under the cornices
of Akamina Ridge.
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This is me getting up the first step of the climb. The climb is basically two short steps (seen here),
followed by a snow ramp, followed by more ice, followed by a snow ramp, followed by more ice.
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Here I am still on the first step.
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This is me clearing the first step.
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Here I am clearing the second step and approaching the long snow slope.
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After the climb, we played around drytooling. When you peeled off, you'd just land on your back in the snow.
This is Blair seen here.
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Here's another one of Blair just before he peels off into the snow.
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