- Submitted by
- TLesh
- Observations date
- Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 11:00
- Location
- 51.216620° N 115.547050° W
- Reporting on
- Ice conditions
%2F-115.54705%2C51.21662%2C8%2C0%2C0%2F1026x200%3Faccess_token%3Dpk.eyJ1IjoiYXZhbGFuY2hlY2FuYWRhIiwiYSI6ImNqd2dvZmUxdzE4ZWg0M2tkaXpuNG95aTQifQ.pBLM87fE3sIxRJqJT7Bf7g&w=1200&q=75 "Cascade Falls - Not great")
Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Ice conditions
- Name of climb
- Cascade Falls
- Ice quality was:
- Terrible
- We retreated from the climb because of
- Inversion conditions
- Poor ice conditions
Information
- The day was:
- Cold
- Warm
- Wet
- Avalanche conditions
- Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.
Comments
Went up Cascade this morning. About -20 Celsius at the car. Got warmer as we went up higher (-5 Celsius?). The ice quality got worse as we got higher up. When we got to the last pitch, it was consistently dropping ice up to human sized so we opted to not climb it.