Lyle Guthmiller near Loch Lomond.

Lyle and I went to recon the East ridge of Bancroft on April 30, 2011. Instead we found something more interesting.

Yours tuly at Loch Lomond

We had a fun filled 5.5 hrs total of snow wallowing in an average of knee deep snow and some stretches crept up to our waists. Good fun.

Our snow pit analysis showed to icy weak layers, both visible in photo. The first layer was a thick sun crust which will be a bed surface for coming weeks.

We dug the snowpit near the face.

Approaching the face from here was all waist deep snow.

The sweet spot!