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Current NSW Alpine climbing conditions . . .


Capt_mulch

10-Aug-2015
3:56:43 PM

Should be good Macca - snow cover is good. Warm norwester in Canberra today before the cold fronts on the way for the next couple of days. Looks good for next weekend.


Macciza

10-Aug-2015
4:35:22 PM

Any idea on whether much ice is forming this year??
Are you coming down??


Capt_mulch

11-Aug-2015
6:52:09 AM

The warm air yesterday (Monday) would have done some melting, and the cold snap with the fronts over the next couple of days should do some freezing, so the indicators are there (Mike Law-Smith says that later in the season is always better because of a better thaw/freeze cycle). You may turn up and just find everything covered in snow.

Won't be there - sprained my ankle badly last week (stepped off a box and tried to fold my foot back under itself - aaaarg - at least its not broken) and the tendons are still complaining - I'll probably go up to Perisher that weekend and tootle around on cross country skis for a bit.

Are you going to head up from Guthega?


Macciza

11-Aug-2015
10:58:35 AM

Thanks,
Yep walking in from Guthega, camping below Twynham...
Climbing around Blue Lake but may also check out Sentinel or Watsons . . .
Cheers
MM


Capt_mulch

12-Aug-2015
3:53:22 PM

Snowing in Canberra today, so plenty of snow up in them thar hills...


Macciza

17-Aug-2015
9:07:20 PM

Due tio camera issues I don't have too many shots but ice conditions were still pretty good.
Similar to Damo's photo but with a bit less snow so the bottom step on the right gave a few moves. Climbed that bit via a chunky pillar that was a bit fractured and later got knocked off by another climber rapping down.... Nice, also had some chunks dinner plating on the middle section.

All up I led the low angled ramp on the left side so we could access the top easily then toproped a couple of variations on the main face and variants in the gullyish thing on the right , but did not get on the right hand ramp . . . All good fun . . .

A flow on the left side of the descent gully apparently was several metres of pretty much vertical ice but i did not get onto it unfortunately . . . Damn . ..

Dug a very quick coffin cave styled snow bivi the for the first night but it stayed very calm all night so I simply slept under the stars the second night. In Bivy and sleeping bag etc obviously . . .

Heaps of fun had by all that got down, a few photos being posted online.
If ou can get down it will possibly still be okay next weekend, weather depending . ..

Cheers
MM

Damien Gildea

20-Aug-2015
11:48:58 PM

Ice still good today, Thursday. Lots of lower angle hard alpine ice around too, good for practice. The steeper flows are a little melting and chandeliered so might not last another warm spell. Some melting out around the lake. Very windy up high, quite a bit of spindrift coming down the main gully and face.

If the two people climbing the left-hand snow gully see this, I have some photos of you near the top I can send.

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