OK, so new years night at 1230 a.m projectile vomiting beneath the north face of the Droits slowed things for a day or three. Es and I had gone up to climb the Ginat, but the barfing put pay to that.

3rd Jan...Phone rings..It's Brodie. "Right who's up for an unclimbed ice line tomorrow...It's fat....Never formed before...Could be a tad spicy..."

Wow, what a place...Mont Saxonnex...Brodie's home territory...

The Ice line we climbed is in the new Batoux guide books as a dry tool line for the first pitch...nothing goes direct from this...

It does now...and it was awesome...three pitches of pure ice...Pitch 1-5+, 25m P2-6, 30m P3-5 20m...

More shots in the pics section.