Elliot Left

b-florina , Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:36PM

15-20cm of new snow (possibly Friday?) is seemingly isolated to the Elliot climbs. The Saturday climbing party turned around where the approach gully narrows, which had a fair amount new slough and loose dry debris in it. We climbed the first pitch. The canyon also had lots of new dry loose debris. We didn’t love the sun warming the slopes above, in combo with the canyon terrain trap, uncertainty about what lay above us and isolated spin drifts, so turned around. Likely to be a very short lived problem, but the new snow amounts are something to consider if winds pick up or temps rise like some forecasts have modelled.