Ice - Grotto
Grant P,
Wednesday 9th December, 2020 10:05PM
<p>New snow before day break and tapered off shortly after.
Grotto Falls has suffered badly with the warm temps and is no longer climbable. What ice is there has holes with running water behind and is almost all delaminated. Any attempt to climb it would likely collapse it and be unprotectable. Needs some cold temps and time to re-form.
Hers was seriously delaminated and the ice just below the anchor on the left should be considered a nasty overhead hazard.
His had a gap between the lower and upper ice. The upper ice had a sizable hanging curtain unsupported and given the delamination visible on Hers and Grotto I'd have to question the integrity of the attachment on His also.
Crystal Tear we didn't see however given it gets more sun and the initial narrows are typically thin when conditions are good - I see no reason to believe the climb is even remotely climbable.</p>
Weather Report
<p>Temps around freezing and rising above freezing slightly.</p>Location: 51.06886189 -115.21803174