Ice - Ghost: THOS

<p>**Driving: TA road icy in places. Drifting halfway in and Stumpland can be bypassed but high clearance vehicle needed. It was probably the relatively warm temps but the drifted sections seemed more boggy as we left at dusk. That was the case for both the TA rd and valley bottom. **Ice: In good condition, nice swings with fairly minimal dinner plating and not too brittle. A fair accumulation of windblown snow at the base of steps reducing the amount of actual ice to climb. **Anchors: THOS is pretty well equipped with bolted stations. However a few are getting buried. Despite being chest height early season, I had to dig around a metre down for one or two so look for the obvious signs of trenched holes. **Walk off: well marked now. A couple different colours have been used by people this season. Quick note; firefighters used orange tape near the start of the approach trail for the fall 2020 fire. Mostly this is away from the descent route so not too much of an issue. We added about 25 reflective markers to the several previously left. Some have an additional reflective white arrow as a directional indicator. There is no actual "trail" but now the walk off bushwhack is also clear of the worst of the bush and logs. There are plans to improve the final link back to the approach trail but we ran out of time. </p>

Weather Report

<p>Temps were fairly mild however the wind was chilly and towards the top of the route got pretty gusty. Didn't note much wind transport but it seems to have settled mostly at this point. We did encounter some deep pockets on the descent and many of thos pockets had a surface crust. Some facetting happening in places below the crusts.</p>

Weather Conditions

Warm, Windy.