We were out there on Sunday. When the guidebook says, "go up through the trees directly from the parking area heading slightly left" what is meant to say is "walk down the road about 50m and then head up into the gully on a good trail. Never having been before we ended up walking up the walk-off gully to somewhere above the climb. ...oops.

Just as well though because we rapped then climbed the 3rd pitch which is in great shape with near perfect ice, rapped the second but were too lazy to climb, and then rapped the third with the intentions of climbing but realized it was in pretty sketchy shape (pocketed out / crappy screw options if any with white sun/heat baked ice mostly de-laminated from the rock). So in the end we probably wouldn't have tried the 1st pitch anyways in its current conditions and our long ass slog at least got us some good climbing.

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