Ice - Galatea trail area

<p>Tasting Fear - takes a couple ropes plus the easier ice to the left. Bridge to Far - first pitch barely touching down on the right. Not yet ready but upper pitches look better condition from the trail. Mountain Dew - visible from the highway but not seen otherwise so no comment on condition. Snow levels. Generally the area doesn't have much snow yet. The trail crosses a couple of avi runout paths but small shrubs and rocks are still showing. At Tasting Fear there was a huge pile of tree debris remaining from last winter. Someone asked me where it had come from thinking it was the treed slopes on the same side as the ice climbs. It was actually brought down across the approach trail and apparently quite a bit of snow flowed around the corner to the base of the climbs. Something to keep in mind when the snowpack becomes deep and unstable because initially the climbs don't appear to have hazard above. It comes from behind you. Photos show the climbs and the avi tree pile. We had a saw and used it to bridge the open water below the left hand climb. We also made getting into the canyon a little easier by removing some of the debris you had to clamber over. Those became the raft below the ice.</p>

Weather Conditions

Warm, Cloudy.