Fellow East Sider, Felicia and I did a turkey trot up Green Gully. It's in the most fun shape I've seen in years. Super good ice with awesome runnels at the top. It's thin in places so you have to be a bit careful with your placements and screws but the gear is good and you can pull on good sticks the whole way.
A #5 Hex (or equivalent) and stubbies help near the top as well as #3 Camelot right at the end.
Go take a lap before it gets fat. It's super worth doing right now!
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blue/green conditions
has anyone been up the pine creek since the big freeze. ill be up there on saturday. is the snowpack as bad over there as here? thanks for the info! climb safe!
Blue/Green
Spent the day in Pine Creek. Opted not to do Blue and Green due to chance of wind overnight loading the gullies, but the climbs look great from the trail. Green was fat at the top and all filled out through the last bulge. Blue was big all the way down. Did the lower and upper falls, upper fun with tiptoeing on mushrooms around thin wet shield. Also did East of Paradise which is a really worthy moderate. Left the crux pillar at the top for another day. Road drifting but getting punched out, easy 4wd right now.
green
On Dec21, before the new snow, Ron and I went up the Green, the trail was beat down good and the ice was awesome. There wasn't a whole lot of snow there, 18"? near the climb, it was really warm, but it didn't get isothermic. The stuff under the surface looked granular/columnar. be careful, Especially on the blue. Neptune is probably huge right now if you can slog up that far.