A Wet Gold Bar

Bryan and myself headed up to Gold Bar on Saturday.  Despite the wet pavement in Seattle we decided that we had a good chance of finding something dry and we could always explore for new blocks.  Well, we showed up at the Equinox boulder to find it dripping wet and to only see looming storm clouds all around.  I put a few lines of chalk above the holds and then brushed each one, hoping that they might dry a little.  We headed off to explore but as soon as we entered the forest above the talus field we found ourselves post-holing through the snow.  After half an hour of that we headed back to the Equinox.  It was dry enough to try but no where near the perfect conditions we had experienced over Thanksgiving.  After around an hour of trying it, it started raining and I conceded that today was not my day to do this rig.  We drove back to Gold Bar and got some food at Zeke's drive in only to look back up and see the boulder field was getting hit with direct sun.  Bummer, maybe next time.  Here are some pictures of Equinox on a dryer day.