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Looking down from the summit as Alain Henault begins the rappel descent of Kraus-McCarthy, August, 1974.
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Photo by Kevin Craig<br> <br> Yellow - Kraus-McCarthy via Bugaboo-Snowpatch Col. <br> <br> Pink - Pigeon-Snowpatch Rappels. Check out Sunny Jamshedji's comment about this descent, on the Snowpatch Spire MP introduction page. Others web-reports have suggested that this route could be climbed, but has not been yet.<br>
Bugaboo-Snowpatch Col, 2009<br> Photo by Jeff Volps<br> Posted on the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides mountain condition report web-page, August 12, 2009:<br> http://acmg.ca/mcr/archives.asp<br> <br> Red dots are the removed rap stations.<br> Green dots were still in, but look at glacier ice below...No way that summer!<br> <br> Update Nov, 2010: Word is the Bugaboo-Snowpatch Col was good last summer with nice new anchors. Those BC Parks wardens are outstanding custodians!
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Ken Trout
Mar 5, 2010
“Looking down from the summit as Alain Henault begins the rappel descent of Kraus-McCarthy, August, 1974.”  

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Map for Kraus-McCarthy<br> contour interval : 100 feet<br> <br> Blue - Bugaboo-Snowpatch Col approach<br> Yellow - Kraus-McCarthy <br> Pink - Pigeon-Snowpatch rappels<br> <br> Applebee is misspelled, sorry.
Photo by Kevin Craig<br> <br> Yellow - Kraus-McCarthy via Bugaboo-Snowpatch Col. <br> <br> Pink - Pigeon-Snowpatch Rappels. Check out Sunny Jamshedji's comment about this descent, on the Snowpatch Spire MP introduction page. Others web-reports have suggested that this route could be climbed, but has not been yet.<br>
Looking down from the summit as Alain Henault begins the rappel descent of Kraus-McCarthy, August, 1974.
Bugaboo-Snowpatch Col, 2009<br> Photo by Jeff Volps<br> Posted on the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides mountain condition report web-page, August 12, 2009:<br> http://acmg.ca/mcr/archives.asp<br> <br> Red dots are the removed rap stations.<br> Green dots were still in, but look at glacier ice below...No way that summer!<br> <br> Update Nov, 2010: Word is the Bugaboo-Snowpatch Col was good last summer with nice new anchors. Those BC Parks wardens are outstanding custodians!
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