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Roz N
Mountain climber
Portola Valley, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 27, 2014 - 02:58pm PT
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Did anyone climb/ski the Dana couloir over Memorial Day weekend? If so, how were the conditions?
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Floyd Hayes
Trad climber
Hidden Valley Lake, CA
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Oct 22, 2015 - 07:45am PT
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Does anybody know what the ice climbing conditions on Dana Couloir are at the moment? A few of us are thinking of heading up there this weekend.
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Floyd Hayes
Trad climber
Hidden Valley Lake, CA
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Oct 22, 2015 - 10:30am PT
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Does anybody know if it has snowed much the last few weeks in the peaks above Tuolumne Meadows?
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Oct 22, 2015 - 01:42pm PT
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3 inches at Mammoth Mountain. The real question is how much of it has melted off by now (October 22nd)?
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John Ellsworth
Mountain climber
June Lake, CA
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Oct 22, 2015 - 02:23pm PT
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Just came down from Tioga Pk and was in snow 90% of the way up from Gardisky Lk. It was mostly just a few inches with short drifted sections of over a foot. The Dana Plateau was white as was the couloir. The approach looked nasty with a little bit of snow over the talus.
Prior to this last couple of storms the couloir was grey ice with the top couple hundred feet melted out.
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Floyd Hayes
Trad climber
Hidden Valley Lake, CA
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Sep 27, 2016 - 12:57pm PT
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Does anybody know what the ice climbing conditions on Dana Couloir are at the moment?
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Nanobody
Trad climber
Fresno, CA
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Sep 27, 2016 - 01:45pm PT
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Only speaking from rumor, but my understanding is that the couloir melted out months ago, no ice, no snow, just choss
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Sep 27, 2016 - 02:28pm PT
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Only speaking from rumor, but my understanding is that the couloir melted out months ago, no ice, no snow, just choss
really?
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John Ellsworth
Mountain climber
June Lake, CA
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Sep 27, 2016 - 03:50pm PT
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The last time I got a look at it, about a month ago, it looked very similar to the last sentence of my Oct. post of a year ago. Gray/black ice with the top 1/3 melted out.
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Floyd Hayes
Trad climber
Hidden Valley Lake, CA
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Sep 28, 2016 - 12:02pm PT
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Thank you gentlemen for the updates.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Sep 28, 2016 - 06:49pm PT
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That's really sad news.
Early October used to be the best time to climb both Dana and U-Notch couloirs.
And you had the mountains pretty much to yourself. Clear weather. A semblance of a Real Alpine trip.
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Hoots
climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Sep 28, 2016 - 06:53pm PT
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A couple got pounded by falling rocks while climbing the couloir about 5 days ago. Broken hands, shattered helmets and a flight out to the Mammoth Hospital.
Lucky.
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