Jermey Jones: 19 of 20 things go right, but…
June 11, 2009 by TahoeLoco
Filed under Extreme Tahoe
Jeremy Jones files an update from his epic spring riding trip in the Alps. Excerpt:
Everything was going as planned. We did the 3Am rappel, climbed to the col, down climbed into “no mans land,” crossed under multiple seracs, climbed over half a dozen bergschrundsand and just as we made it over our last barrier and were getting ready to hammer down to the peak we realized it was not going to happen today. The problem was the wind, ALWAYS THE WIND! It was keeping the upper half of the line frozen which would mean we would be riding hard snow on a 50 degree slope over exposure. The tricky part was that the bottom half of the line was warming up fast and would need to be ridden in the next two hours so we could not wait for the possibility of the top warming up later in the day. There was also the serac and glacier issue that complicated things. We wanted to be out from under the seracs and off the glacier by 11AM before things heated up and the mountains did their daily shedding.
Photo from Jeremy Jones.
