Balfour Wall - Mount Murchison

Quick report

Weather

warm, sunny

Ice Quality

terrible

Retreated From Climb Because Of

poorIceConditions, warmingSolarRadiation

In our team’s opinion, was not worth the hike in to try crag at Balfour. It seems the warmer temps and sun the past week caused newly forming climbs (or not yet formed climbs) at the wall there to either partially or completely fall down or to just be so delaminated or not structurally sound that it was not even worth climbing them on top rope (let alone leading them). We also saw while we were there pretty much every climb lob a big chunk off from lack of structural integrity and the warm temps and/or sun.