Re: Little Joe's Pass
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2020 3:55 pm
The wider one that was better cairned was never unstable enough to consequential (you'd eat boulders), more that you'd slide down a bit with every step. The talus fields before you hit the chutes along the side were pretty stable iirc. The smaller chute I was in had a lot more vegitation than the main one, but I never felt unsafe in the main one... pretty standard class 2 if a little tedious.
I'll add in a few more photos in between the rest that I had written up for that trip:
And here's a zoom in of the approach part of my labeled GPS waypoints:
I was chatting with someone that did it differently this summer, and these are some pics from them:
"there was a lot of confusion and names for the chute we went up. Someone has named it Weyman chute and Leor Pantilat has called the shoulder we topped out on Point reflection [...] I got my info from blogs from Leor Pantilat who called it point reflection and Piero Scaruffi who called it the Weyman chute for his photog friend. It was a fun scramble. Good rock with loose stuff on the bigger ledges"
It seems like solid class 3, if you cut back in early enough you can skip the exposed 4 that people can run into, but it also doesn't seem quite as straightforward with a pack. It might be a better experience as long as you don't stray too far N towards the top...
I'll add in a few more photos in between the rest that I had written up for that trip:
And here's a zoom in of the approach part of my labeled GPS waypoints:
I was chatting with someone that did it differently this summer, and these are some pics from them:
"there was a lot of confusion and names for the chute we went up. Someone has named it Weyman chute and Leor Pantilat has called the shoulder we topped out on Point reflection [...] I got my info from blogs from Leor Pantilat who called it point reflection and Piero Scaruffi who called it the Weyman chute for his photog friend. It was a fun scramble. Good rock with loose stuff on the bigger ledges"
It seems like solid class 3, if you cut back in early enough you can skip the exposed 4 that people can run into, but it also doesn't seem quite as straightforward with a pack. It might be a better experience as long as you don't stray too far N towards the top...