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| Paul Platt on Waterfall Gully |
I decided on Waterfall Gully today with John and Jim. When we got there Paul Platt was already there with his 2 clients, so we got a front row seat to watch and chill. The ice was fantastic, chewy and not brittle at all. Not everywhere was good for screws on the pitch however - but this was more than made up for in the upper gully where you could sink the longest screws anywhere on the left wall. After 40m of climbing there was an insitu double thread ab/belay. We decided to go on for another pitch to 'see around the corner'. I went exactly 60m before making a belay. We saw a team on Gemini having fun on the steep icy smear. Time didn't allow us to continue further up the gully, so back to the thread belay it was. We eventually ab'ed off 3 equalised threads. We no longer had time unfortunately to climb on the lower CIC ice falls which looked good. The Curtain today looked good (if a little thin and bold) - at least 1 team climbed it. There were other teams on the lower ice falls, Vanishing Gully, Tower Ridge and Ledge Route.
Tim - Jim says that you need to get over here and get on one of these courses.
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| Paul on pitch 1 |
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| The thread abseil |
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| Jim after the steep ice |
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| Jim on his way to the belay |
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| John and Jim |
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| Jim on his way up on the second 60m pitch |
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| Gemini - the very steep ice smear before the right sloping grooves |
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| John on the final abseil |
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