Polar Circus

Don't rappel the pencil right now, it's considering touching down, and you might bring it down on yourself if you do so. We walked around the approach ice, and found the remaining pitches to be good climbing, although generally quite wet. We bailed before the last pitch due to time. It is bone dry and would probably be notably harder than the second to last.

Snowpack was highly variable, but generally there was 0-20cm of newer powder snow on top of a thin and mostly decomposed crust, on top of a thin layer of facets. It was generally unsupportive underfoot.