10/2/2011 Route: South Face Posted On: 10/3/2011, By: LynnKH Info: Perfect conditions on the Needle. A small amount of lingering snow near the top of BHP made for 1 or 2 interesting moves in which microspikes were helpful; ice axe would be completely unnecessary. Water running down the east gulley was easily avoidable. The west gulley was totally dry. Gorgeous, warm, blue bird October day with very few people in the area! |
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9/24/2011 Route: Ellingwood ledges Posted On: 9/25/2011, By: skitexas Info: All standard route belay stations and first 5.5 pitch are covered in snow/ice, dramatically increasing difficulty with limited protection opportunity. Upper 5.7 pitches relatively snow-free. Took us 3-pitches with a 60m to the 3rd-class gully. |
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8/7/2011 Route: South Face Posted On: 8/10/2011, By: apasquel Info: went up the west gully and it was great...I felt the rock (conglomerate) was solid...there were jugs the entire way up the scramble. This route is solid!!! |
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7/27/2011 Route: South Face Posted On: 7/27/2011, By: mrschaible Info: Clear and dry all the way to the summit. |
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7/8/2011 Route: South Face Posted On: 7/9/2011, By: mrschaible Info: Route is doable in summer gear (no axe or traction devices). Only small amount of snow in the broken hand pass. I did the climb in trail running shoes. |
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7/2/2011 Route: South Face Posted On: 7/2/2011, By: Nelson Info: For comments on Broken Hand Pass see my comments on the Peak. The Needle is, for practical purposes, snowfree. The exception is the dihedral going up the east gully. The first half has dirty icy snow. This will be slow to melt. |
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6/25/2011 Route: South Face Posted On: 6/25/2011, By: Joe W Info: The east and west gullies have small amounts of snow.Ascended climbers right of east gully to the summit ridge,crossed no snow.The descent was standard west gully to east gully,at crossover was three feet of snow. |
