A Little Rock & A Little Snow

The weather has been pretty lame this spring/early summer lots of rain feels like October. I have found time and dry days to get out cragging but had not been on a road trip since ice season. I was ready for some alpine by the time I could make things work out it was getting a bit late for Cascade ice/mixed routes. Talked with Joe about a quick two day trip over to Leavenworth Washington to see if  Dragontail Peak Triple Couloirs was still in. The weather report started looking ugly so we opted to rock climb the first day at Vantage great day.

Crack climbing goodness!

Thursday evening we drove over to Leavenworth and camped.

Home Thursday night

Man 3:00am sure does come quickly! We packed gear for Triple Couloir but the light rain on the walk in made me think we were caring dead weight. After getting to Colchuck Lake we could see that the ice runnels were gone and the rock bypass didn't sound great with the weather.

Ice runnels definitely out but will be back for this one!

 So ditched the gear and did North Buttress Coulior on Colchuck Peak as a consolation prize.



Joe taking the escalator to the top



Still a heck of a lot of fun and I can't believe I had never been over there before. I will be back way too much alpine goodness to be had.