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Ice Climbing Cogne - Cascade de Lillaz

They have finally dug out cogne, the avalanche debris accoss the roads is really impressive with whole trees sticking out, some of the lamp posts in Lillaz have been bent over but no buildings seem to be badly damaged. We were a bit of large team with 5 of us some just wanting to do a bit of climbing and Kate wanted to do some leading so we headed to the Cascade de Lillaz. The left hand easy start was completly buried in snow and the first 15 feet of the right steep start (4) was buried by avalanche debris, I lead the first pitch with the rest of the team following then Kate did a great job of leading the 2nd pitch placinf screws on the way. I lead the third steeper pitch leaving the screws for Kate so she could get a feel for leading on greade 4 type ground. The top pitch had loads of water flowing down the centre but the left hand side was good solid ice. Have a look at the video to check out conditions.


Cascade de Lillaz from Bruce Goodlad on Vimeo.

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