North Face of the Gothics

Shane, Tom, Christian and I are headed up next weekend to attempt the N Face of the Gothics. It usually doesn't come into shape until February or March because it needs to build on a good base of snow, and then have a couple freeze/thaw cycles to get into good shape. The Dacks got dumped on last week, and unfortunately a team tried it a few days ago while the snow is still quite loose, and they rode an avalanche down! Luckily noone was seriously injured.

I did a web search and also looked in any of the guidebooks I have and put together a writeup (with quite a few pictures also found on the web) about the route. You can download the 20MB file here.