Winter’s End
So it’s over the ‘05-’06 winter climbing season ended yesterday. As far as the PNW goes it was a pretty rough year weather wise; not many good breaks in the weather and a lot of snow to deal with then the weather was good.
The few good weekends we did have yielded some nice new ascents. A new route on the east face of Whitehorse and the first winter ascent of the East Face Couloir (Carpenter-Stoddard-Vance 1966) on Three Fingers. I’d been eying Whitehorse for some time - it’s a super nice looking line - but you can’t be everywhere at once. Elsewhere there were serious attempts on NE Face of Stuart and Sloan.
In those same windows a lot of people got out and climbed a lot of the usual suspects; Chair, Kent, Snoqualmie, Big Four (still gotta do that) and probably a whole lot more I didn’t hear about.
Time to start training some more for the Yukon - if I can kick this cold and not injure myself (again).
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