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All Locations > International > N America > Canada > British Columbia > Columbia Mountains > Purcell Mountains > Bugaboos > Snowpatch Spire > Snowpatch Route (aka… (5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c)
Looking down the 1st corner from the glacier (ropeless, so must have been easy)
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Continuing up the corner system..now roped
A party ahead of us on the headwall (above the snowpatch)
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Robert Hall
Feb 29, 2016
“Looking down the 1st corner from the glacier (ropeless, so must have been easy)”  

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Snowpatch routes from Applebee<br> Photo by MP contributor Steven Lucarelli<br> <br> Blue - Wiessners Route<br> Red - Bugaboo Snowpatch Col<br> Purple - Bergschrund<br> Black - 60 meter rappel<br> Yellow - first Kraus-McCarthy rap anchor
Snowpatch Descent<br> Photo by MP contributor Kevin Craig<br> <br> Yellow - Kraus-McCarthy<br> Red - Bugaboo-Snowpatch Col <br> Green - Pigeon-Snowpatch Rappels
The 5.4 dihedral below Wiessner Overhang.
Darren heading up into the headwall.
Cropped photo of "Headwall above the snowpatch"
"Headwall" above the snowpatch...the route goes up there somewhere! (If someone want's to trace it, e-mail me for the photo. Also see "cropped" photo of the same)
I believe this is the start of the "5.5 traverse"
Continuing up the corner system..now roped
Looking down the 1st corner from the glacier (ropeless, so must have been easy)
A party ahead of us on the headwall (above the snowpatch)
MJ Cross on about the 2nd or 3rd rap of the McCarthy-Kraus (1982, no bolts then!)
Alic heading by the snowpatch on the 3rd class section of the Southeast Corner. Note the steepening headwall above (the crux is up there)