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Is Blue Lake On? 29-Jul-2013 At 2:22:56 AM Damien Gildea

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Was up there on Saturday. It's not great, I thought it would be fatter. It's more like late June or early Sept. No truly fat ice but some OK bits here and there. Lots of things that look OK are hollow or too thin over rock. OK for toproping but hard to get screws for leading. There was one nice lower angled but decently long Scottish style ramp on the western side, but it was too thin down low to protect on lead. Quite a bit of grass showing through on the eastern slope, quite thin snow cover all over for late July. Lake was frozen over but I wouldn't walk on it. Snow was too thin and soft in places for snow stake anchors, so take nuts and slings if you want to toprope.