Blanca Snow Conditions?

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Blanca Snow Conditions?

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Anyone have recent pics of the standard route on Blanca? Snow coverage?
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Re: Blanca Snow Conditions?

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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.
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Bill, when were you planning to go there?
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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.
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EVEREST DREAMS wrote:Bill, when were you planning to go there?
When it has enough snow for a ski. Who knows when/if that will happen this season
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Bill,

Here is a picture taken by Boggy B/Michael Davis from Twin Peaks this last weekend.

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