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Friday, December 22, 2006

[MCR] Guiness Gully

Climbed the route yesterday with two guests.  Good shape throughout with only a few sections of thin, brittle ice on the first pitch, full length screws everywhere else.  Everything after that was wet and plastic.  There is a fair amount of snow on the trees and we had the occasional "tree bomb" come down on us.  Well packed trail into base of route and it looked like quite a few people were using the climbers right hand gully to descend - we rapped the route.  Stout and Hi Test looked good but I could not see a trail going up to them from the top pitch of Guinness.  Looked like a lot of work to get there.  
 
Cheers
 
Mike Stuart
ACMG Assistant Alpine Guide
E: m_stuart@telus.net