Ranger Valley

Quick report

-12 at car at 7am. - 4 at climbs at 8:15 2 degrees at car at 2pm 3 cm of snow at the road 30 cm snow at base of climbs. Snow drifts from 0cm to 100cm. Previous storm event was 3 days prior to us Well beaten trail in from the days before. Light to moderate wind gusts around 1pm as we were topping out and rapping our last climb. Didn’t seem to be moving a lot of snow around up high but a little bit of spin drift was blowing down the R and D chute. Snow was mostly facets but below Lone Ranger and Chalice, the top 5-10cm was wind affected. Chalice and Spoon climbed well. Did not do the “blade”. Dry ice. A number of hooks - It has been climbed. Some poor ice quality for screws around but overall great climbing. Used one stubby screw. Climbed in one 65 m pitch and rapped on “no threads” from last vertical ice flow. R and D was wet up top but we didn’t get soaked. Rap rings up and right are in good condition.