Unnamed Gully  WI2-3

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Type:  Trad, Ice, 2 pitches Consensus:  WI3- [details] FA:  unknown Season:  winter Submitted By:  Leo Paik on Jan 1, 2002 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (4) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

Tim leading the unnamed gully in great conditions....

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This is the pitch of ice way up in the left branch of the big Y Couloir in Officer's Gulch. It's a beautiful little bit of easy ice. Pick a low avalanche risk day.

Walk west from the parking area about a mile on a footpath into the big basin. Below Three Tiers find a switchback east and up. Follow this until you are in the drainage below Round the Corner, unnamed curtain, and unnamed gully. Hike up the drainage, hopefully on a stamped-down path. At the Y perhaps a 1000 feet up, go left. Find yourself below this pretty bit of blue.

This is probably WI 2-3+ for a good pitch. Sometimes upper pitches apparently fill in. Enjoy.

Protection 

Ice screws.

Approach 

Probably an hour. Expect 1000' of gain.

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BETA PHOTO	Gordon gettin' off the couch.	BETA PHOTO: Mike Donaldson on the 2nd tier of ice.