#WORDS ROCK SCRAMBLE PATCH FREE#
These shortcuts are available to free players, as well as members, but yield 0 XP. Flotation might be necessary if the snow in the basin does not freeze, which it won't in the immediate future.Stile at Fred the Farmer's sheep field and the stile at Falador cabbage patch. We wore them up the couloir but the snow was soft enough not to need them, and I wore them for the upper scramble on the way up, but neither of us wore them for the remainder of the day after reaching the summit. Crampons probably not necessary unless there's a hard freeze. Gear: ice axe mandatory for the couloir and short sections on the upper mountain. The snow and ice on the upper mountain's down scramble was enormously consequential and took us time and care to get down. We reversed our route all the way into Rustler Gulch and plunge stepped the couloir, not wanting to try any of the other numerous gullies on the south face. After several hundred feet of this we reached the summit ridge where rock quality again deteriorated but the difficulty dropped to exposed, snowy Class 2 to the summit. Three points of contact at all times on this section.
Unfortunately there was ample snow, ice, and meltwater on everything and the rock was often slabby in nature. Fortunately this rock was very solid for the most part, because this was no fall territory.
This continued to another large, nigh unclimbable notch.įrom this notch we scrambled down 10-20 feet of Class 3 rock, traversed a short distance on snow across the north face, then scrambled up several hundred feet of sustained, extremely exposed Class 3 rock. Once atop this short headwall there were several hundred feet of Class 2+ scrambling on large boulders and talus that was considerably more stable. Almost everything we touched was loose, sometimes just completely detached from anything else. This was highly exposed and was the most serious and careful scrambling of the route. Most of the couloir held snow with exception of a stretch near the top that was a two steps forward, one step back type of affair.Īt the top of the couloir we turned slightly to the right, traversed a short distance, climbed maybe 20-30 feet of steep snow, and then scrambled up another 20-30 or so feet of extremely loose Class 3, arguably Class 4 rock. Any rock that was melted out was loose beyond words. Snow in the couloir was good for cramponing, and we probably could have even gone without crampons. We made our way across snow, open or willowy slopes, and loose talus to the base of Precarious' obvious southwest couloir, which is a giant gash in the peak's left flank. Without an overnight freeze anticipate awful snow conditions. In the morning they were somewhat firm, in the afternoon they were sloppy messes at least ankle deep and we often postholed to our waists. In the upper gulch the trail eventually gets lost in snow patches. All in all we probably crossed the river and streams a dozen times on the way up and down. There's another serious crossing on logs and many more stream crossings until the upper gulch. We couldn't find a good way across so Heather leapt across a rocky gap and I took my boots off and waded the river. The long: from Rustler Gulch trailhead (newly added to the site) we took the trail, which is an old closed road, through numerous wet, muddy patches and alongside East River, making stream crossings and wading through mud and muck in standing water and willows where necessary until eventually the trail crosses East River. Upper Mountain harder with snow, easier without. Lower mountain easier with snow, harder without. The short: steep, insidiously loose, exposed, wet, snowy, and scrambly.
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