The Diamond and Chasm Lake Area: Pictures Wanted
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Any updates after this weekend? |
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We went back up to try D7 on Saturday. The snow field still creeps a good ways up the North Chimney. Crampons and an axe were nice to have. The snow gear was not required on Broadway or once you get onto the rock in the chimney. |
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What were conditions this past weekend? Still need ice gear for the chimney? Sounds like a lot of people were up there. |
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Bump. Anyone got pictures/reports from this weekend? |
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Did the casual yesterday. It was dry, got some occasional spray from higher drips with the wind, but nothing major. |
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Good stuff Will! |
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This stays pretty current with Keyhole, Diamond, and North Face conditions. |
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Excellent conditions on the diamond. Get after it! The crux of the day was getting to the north chimney across mill's glacier. I saw two people almost get seriously hurt after sliding a ways down the glacier. One bounced across the boulders at the bottom from 50 ft up, the other stopped about halfway down after sliding 100 feet. |
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Spearhead
Spearhead 2 Spearhead was pretty clear last week with the exception of the snow at the base and pockets of snow here and there. We ran into one other party that was climbing the Barb Flake, but otherwise the only people we ran into were the hoards of hikers heading up to Black Lake, which is wide open with some spectacular waterfalls. |
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Can anyone tell me how wet the right side of the Diamond is, over by The Joker? |