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#1014 - 02/25/08 09:26 AM Spray River Falls
GVK GVK WI3 Registered: 02/15/08 Posts: 14	Went to SRF Feb24. Gave up 150m before the ice, deep snow and... desperate!! Looked excellent and blue... Francois & Jean-Luc
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#1046 - 02/28/08 06:44 PM Re: Spray River Falls [Re: GVK]
GVK GVK WI3 Registered: 02/15/08 Posts: 14	Climbed SRF Feb28. Used the trail from a few days ago to the gully, then broke trail in the bush / trees / rock bands for 1h30. No fun ; prefer crampons to snowshoes, as the snow is sugar directly on the ground. The climbing though is excellent, albeit quite brittle. The final pillar from the cave is done in a 60m pitch, very good ice. Rapped on 2 vthreads and 2 trees. Gilles & Kevin
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#1145 - 03/11/08 10:25 PM Re: Spray River Falls [Re: GVK]
farrgo farrgo WI3 Registered: 11/08/07 Posts: 14 Loc: WA	Climbed SRF today. There's a good bootpack set, but its still not a pleasent approach with mushy snow conditions. Ice is fat, but is starting to suffer a bit from the temps/sun. _________________________ "You're limping Ben..."
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#1244 - 03/30/08 03:56 PM Re: Spray River Falls [Re: farrgo]
DJEJ DJEJ WI2 Registered: 03/14/08 Posts: 6	Climbed SRF on the 29th of Mar. approach trail is in good shape. We hiked up the rib below and right of the climb, trying to stay out of the gully. There is a trail that starts to head up the drainage but ends after 100m or so. The route is in top notch shape aside from a big dagger still hanging on the left hand side of the route on the second pitch. It can be avoided by staying to the right of it. Good screws to found on all pitches.
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#1271 - 04/03/08 08:16 AM Re: Spray River Falls [Re: DJEJ]
chris willie chris willie WI1 Registered: 12/07/07 Posts: 4 Loc: calgary	Did the climb yesterday with Grant P and Tim M. We found pretty good approach conditions (and took same route as above post) up to the bowl finding a relatively supportive crust with facets to ground below most of the way... I wouldn't want to be in that gully if it warmed up much. There have been small releases to ground on S facing aspects in the gully where the snowpack was more shallow. the climb itself was amazing, polished and surprisingly hard and brittle ice all the way to the top. the hanging dagger to the left of the pillar mentioned above appears to have broken off - good sheltered bolted belay to right of pillar.
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#1276 - 04/04/08 09:39 AM Re: Spray River Falls [Re: chris willie]
Grant P Grant P WI5 Registered: 11/10/07 Posts: 57 Loc: Calgary	Pic added from 2-Apr-08. It may be worth noting that the route loses sun around mid-day and we had -10oC start leaving the car. It felt warm in the sun at the base but an extra layer for climbing the 2nd/3rd pitches would have been nice. Also while it may look like a big ledge left of the curtain, there's a big funnel there. Belay to the right where Chris found the bolts. Attachments Description: View of pitch 2 + 3 Edited by Grant P (04/04/08 09:47 AM)
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