Can somebody help me understand where the difficulty on this face lies? Where is there enough vert to have WI4 and 5.8 as its called on the MP description? It just doesn't look steep enough.
This isn't a troll. I am legitimately interested and hoping to get on this route this fall.
My guess is that the descriptions are for early season when there is just enough moisture to have ice. The picture looks mid/late winter when everything is buried and quite frankly death routes. In the spring after a few good freeze thaw cycles the routes are probably you suspect - nice moderate snow routes.
This is an old photo taken from a 2010 Summitpost thread. Credit to PocketsOfBlue. Says it was taken November 1. This is the face directly across from Roberts Horn's East Face.