In reply to jon:
> Just read Wayne's C2CTR. Maybe you didn't go far enough left (looking out)? Must have been a bit dodgy late on with stuff coming down?
An epic, heroic lead on his part to get to the snow, blank, smooth, protectionless rock climbed teetering on crampon points. I could barely follow it with a solid belay, not least because I had got so cold. Far harder than any rock climbing on the route proper, also quite un-necessary as I was sure I could see a better line, to the right looking up.
The snow descending the ramp/couloir is best described as "not as bad as it might have been." We were seriously dreading it when we got to the first bits of complete porridge on the rock ridge, but in the end it went all right if you were (very) carefull. Although the sun that day was intense, the couloir/ramp was largely in shadow, fortunately. One big rock did come down heading straight for Wayne, I screamed at him and he managed to dodge it, other than that, not much coming down though plenty of rocks embedded in the snow.
We did eventually see a bolt below in descent, (on the left of the stream, looking down) could reach it after placing some tat for a higher abseil.
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