
Trip Report
Intermediate Field Trip #6 Ice Climbing 2 - Heliotrope Ridge and Lower Coleman Glacier & Seracs
Trip emphasized French and Front pointing, building anchors and V threads, traversing, and leading two pitches on ice.
- Sat, Aug 18, 2018 — Sun, Aug 19, 2018
- Intermediate Field Trip #6 Ice Climbing 2 - Heliotrope Ridge and Lower Coleman Glacier & Seracs
- Heliotrope Ridge and Lower Coleman Glacier & Seracs
- Climbing
- Successful
- Road suitable for all vehicles
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The main hazard on this trip was extreme smoke. Sunday was even worse than Saturday, with visibility almost totally obscured. We stayed out a little late Saturday night so that we could finish the leads with each person leading the whole thing in two multi-pitch installments, and we could walk out Sunday.
Swapnil, David Perkins, Steve, Kryzstof, Joanne, Hannah, and Dan Coate each performed excellently on ice screw placement, building anchors, traversing, and doing mock and real two-pitch leads on ice. The road to Heliotrope Ridge was rough as usual. Walk in and out involved a treacherous fourth stream crossing but everyone made it across, albeit soaked from the knees down in most cases. Camp site was normal - we had it to ourselves, and we had adequate water at the stream's edge.