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[Igloo Ed]

Went up last Saturday to check out the couloir on Hallett's east ridge. Just a few pictures:

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[jflo]

Looks awesome!! That would be a great hike!!

[Igloo Ed]

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Edited by Igloo Ed, 27 July 2010 - 06:30 PM.

[Igloo Ed]

I went up with SkiBudFrank and it was a great day on a climb that I had never done. There were a couple spots that got my heart going.

[hector]

Whoa, looks strenuous, and amazing!

[Igloo Ed]

hector, on 27 July 2010 - 06:45 PM, said:

Whoa, looks strenuous, and amazing!

Strenuous... I did get a good upper body workout. Lots of good hand holds though.

[Mark Zemmin]

Wow! That looks like a challenging hike. Cool pictures and report.

Mark

[Scrapinator]

Cool looking hike, though as already noted, challenging.

[DrCloud]

How wonderful.

It's been years since I did mountaineering of this caliber, and I sure wish that I'd been able to do it back then on real routes such as this (and people with experience). The old-time approach was "well, that looks interesting, let's go up that way", often followed, sometime later, by "Holy crap, how did we get ourselves into this fix??" It was a great way to experience adrenalin rushes, but that was then.

I'll have to file this away for future reference. Nice report. HPH

[JDgreen]

Igloo Ed, on 27 July 2010 - 06:53 PM, said:

Strenuous... I did get a good upper body workout. Lots of good hand holds though.

Did the snowfield make the class 2 route inacessable?

[Igloo Ed]

JDgreen, on 27 July 2010 - 08:18 PM, said:

Did the snowfield make the class 2 route inacessable?

That's very possible but it was fun.

[ScottO]

Igloo Ed, on 27 July 2010 - 06:31 PM, said:

There were a couple spots that got my heart going.

Because they were strenuous, or because of footing and exposure?

ScottO

[Allie]

Yikes, Ed, not sure I could do that. Glad you did and shared the photos.

[dianeh85]

Man, if I didn't have to work, that would have been such a cool hike and the workout my body is needing! Great pictures, looks like you guys had a great time?

[Igloo Ed]

ScottO, on 27 July 2010 - 08:36 PM, said:

Because they were strenuous, or because of footing and exposure?

ScottO

Smooth rock with little rivulets seeping across it over a potenial 6 foot fall. Frank took a different route that was safer. I was enjoying the climbing and it looked interesting.
Down lower too, Frank went up the semi loose rock and I went out on a face, quite a bit of exposure there but it was safe climbing. There seems to be different route choices in most places if not all. We probably could have also went along side the snow like we did in one of the pictures, that makes it pretty easy but gets your legs muddy from rubbing on the dirty snow. Not real bad though. I think Sandy would like a mud pack on her legs.