Mt Whitney Zone Forums General Discussion Mountaineering Route Final 400 and Easy Walkoff Fall Zones

With the recent and recurring falls. I played with "gimp" on a North Face image and came up with a guess of the following ice fall zones for the Easy Walkoff.

[img]https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TvukTcnCvRxE1QXWJteyyXJV_CemvykI/view?usp=drive_link[/img]

Red section (Final 400): Dead.
Violet section: ?
Blue section: ?
Yellow section: ?

Jay

Thanks Jaym.
It's definitely the Red section. The other sections on that "walk off" descent have broken boulders throughout the section, except a short section, between the start of the Final 400 ascent and a few yards to the west.

Here's a link to pictures and a thread from 2018 or 19, showing the route, and a picture with two abandoned ice axes where the hiker tried to cross the section and failed. That spot is the most treacherous place on Mt Whitney in May. That hiker had two ice axes, but no crampons. He should have descended via the Main Trail (his camp and gear were at Trail Camp), but must have mistakenly gone down the wrong side.

Goofing with Google Drive: Believe I have found a way to get the image inline (should work for a few minutes until Google changes the system yet again).



Method used: "http://drive.google.com/thumbnail?id=1TvukTcnCvRxE1QXWJteyyXJV_CemvykI&sz=s500&.jpg"