Contact Gully 

FA:  ? Type:  Trad, Ice Consensus:  WI3-4 [details] Length:  4 pitches, 700 feet, Grade II Season:  Winter Views: 88 page views Submitted By: bsmoot on Apr 5, 2008 Add Photo  Add Comment

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Description 

P1 - Climb thick, low angle ice for 100' to the snow. Belay 75' higher on the right at a rock rib.
P2 - Ascend easy mixed snow & ice to a belay at a horn of rock in the gully.
P3 - Follow the gully past a steep bulge of ice, to a belay tree.
P4 - An easier pitch leads to another belay tree.

Rap gully

Location 

This route is the gully formed by the right side of the granite of the Contact Buttress and the quartzite to the west. Approach by climbing the Scruffy Band and diagonaling up and left to the first ice slab below the start of the gully.

Protection 

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Contact Gully from the parking lot: the bros. Smo...