crevasse on the couloir névé.

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crevasse on the couloir névé.

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This is a crevasse on the couloir névé. A crevasse in SoCal!

4,000+ feet of snow & névé

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Ash Gambhir

Jul 13, 2017

“crevasse on the couloir névé.”

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Around 7k after the storm on 11/30/18

Snow Creek beta photo (Google Earth route overlay, showing no-trespassing area)

Alex and Zach near the chockstone

Joe postholing near the top.

Joe at the start of the snow tongue.

1/14/17. Not bad for La Nina.

Giant chockstone at 5,500'. 3rd/4th class scramble around it to the right out of view

Above the chockstone 1987.

View from where we parked.

Dawn on Snow Creek.

Pretty Epic views

Joe and I nearing the summit

The famous Choke Stone

This is a crevasse on the couloir névé. A crevasse in SoCal!

crevasse on the couloir névé.

4,000+ feet of snow & névé

The start of ice

Needed the 2 ice tools

Climbing one of the side walls to get around the chockstone

The sun going down at the top.

nathan on nice firm snow near the top

Paul Gleason 1971, mid-route with perfect conditions. Took about 12 hours car to car.

San Gorgonio as seen on route.

The start of the snow tongue, just above the massive chockstone. 5,300' of snow/ice to the summit

snow creek in january

Paul cruising up the snow chute. The starting elevation can be seen wayyyyy in the background

In the couloir - maybe a third of the way up, 1987.

DWA searching for trespassers...

Low on San Jacinto. 1971. Just a bit of spindrift off the summit. With Paul Gleason in about 12 hours car to car with perfect conditions. (This might be near the tram).

Near the top

Snow Creek, as seen from approx. 1/2 way in on the approach

Zach and I running out of up, and fat to burn.