Blanca Snow Conditions?
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Blanca Snow Conditions?
Anyone have recent pics of the standard route on Blanca? Snow coverage?
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Re: Blanca Snow Conditions?
Hey Bill,
This may not help you but I summited March 16th and Como was dry til about 9,500. The trail was firm/boot packed til about 11'000 where snowshoes were needed all the way to when the pitch increases above Blue Lakes. I needed crampons from Blue Lakes to just above Crater Lake. The ledges were tricky because of the ice/steepness however once climbing the saddle, Blanca's NW face was bone dry.
This may not help you but I summited March 16th and Como was dry til about 9,500. The trail was firm/boot packed til about 11'000 where snowshoes were needed all the way to when the pitch increases above Blue Lakes. I needed crampons from Blue Lakes to just above Crater Lake. The ledges were tricky because of the ice/steepness however once climbing the saddle, Blanca's NW face was bone dry.
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Re: Blanca Snow Conditions?
Bill, when were you planning to go there?
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Re: Blanca Snow Conditions?
Thanks!blazintoes wrote:Hey Bill, This may not help you but I summited March 16th and Como was dry til about 9,500. The trail was firm/boot packed til about 11'000 where snowshoes were needed all the way to when the pitch increases above Blue Lakes. I needed crampons from Blue Lakes to just above Crater Lake. The ledges were tricky because of the ice/steepness however once climbing the saddle, Blanca's NW face was bone dry.
When it has enough snow for a ski. Who knows when/if that will happen this seasonEVEREST DREAMS wrote:Bill, when were you planning to go there?
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Re: Blanca Snow Conditions?
Bill,
Here is a picture taken by Boggy B/Michael Davis from Twin Peaks this last weekend.
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos- ... 3063_o.jpg
Here is a picture taken by Boggy B/Michael Davis from Twin Peaks this last weekend.
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos- ... 3063_o.jpg
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