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Date |
Ascent Time |
Descent Time |
| 1st Time |
02 Nov 03 |
2:00 |
1:45 |
| 2nd Time |
28 Nov 03 |
2:40 |
1:10 |
We headed into Wall Lake Friday afternoon after the sun went down. With the 12+ inches of fresh snow, route finding
was difficult, but Blair did a great job of finding the way to Wall Lake. We set up the tent right beside Wall Lake's
outlet stream so that we would be close to the climbs, close to running water, etc. Unfortunately, we were right at
the base of an avalanche gully. We didn't realise this until the next morning when the sun came up.
Here
we see Blair starting to get dressed for some possible ice climbing. Wall Lake is behind Blair. Unfortunately, with
the high avalanch danger, we weren't able to do any ice climbing, but we toured around quite a bit and that was fine.
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This picture was taken later in the day upon return. This is Blair stepping up to cross the bridge over troubled
waters. Well, the waters weren't very troubled, but it sounded good.
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This is looking away from Wall Lake. Our camp was in a beautiful setting.
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As usual, Blair is the one with all of the energy. Here we see him doing some heavy trail breaking. I had a horrible
energy weekend, so it was all I could do to just keep up with him. This is on our way to look at the ice climbs, such
as Midnight Madness.
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Well, we got closer to Midnight Madness (shown in the middle of the picture) and we were able to see the bowl
leading to Bennett Pass. We watched numerous avalanches sweep over the climbs, and it became obvious that the
ice climbing was going to be too dangerous.
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The next couple of pictures show the bowl leading toward Bennett Pass.
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This looking back down toward Wall Lake. There was a lot of sluffing in this area. Wall Lake is just behind the
trees at the bottom of this picture.
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So, with ice climbing out of the question, Blair and I went into the trees and did some skiing. The
skiing was good for November, but the snow was quite heavy, so it wasn't the best skiing, but when you
keep in mind that it was only November, it was pretty good.
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