Terminator Wall Info, thanks Tom Wolfe.

Vapours via Postscriptum, currently all-ice and solid WI4, works best with 60 m ropes as shown but will work with different raps (placed yesterday, Hallowe'en, by Marco & the AAC prez) with 55 m. I left a 2-pin station 5 m above the top of the ice on the right (a thin but manageable and exciting finishing pitch) last Wednesday--good for rapping, but you'll probably want to use an ice belay to bring up your second especially if you only have 55 m ropes. An additional med-large stopper hammered home would make a bomber anchor in addition to the ringer baby angle and KB. *From bolts at the top of Postscriptum, 60 m ropes bring you down to easy terrain (short WI2 step) below the WI3 pitch if you really want to get down FAST*.

Getting to/from the WI3 pitch to/from the little bowl:


There's a single bolt at the top of the small step 1-2 m left of the easiest climbing line (a single-5th-class move). I found the old handline yesterday, uncovered by the wind, and threw it back up next to the single bolt; I don't know if the party behind us reinstalled it. It's quite frozen, a new one (10m long?) would make a good service project for someone....


A convenient touch is the presence of a two-bolt anchor on the slabby rock at the bottom and left of the WI3 approach ice. It may be covered by snow as it's quite low. This should get you quickly into the little bowl just before the small step and would save some downclimbing and make escape a simple matter of one more rappel (it's about 50 m from the base of the Vapours v-thread ice).

Here's a shot that Nick Rapiche sent of Sea of Vapours, Brent Raymond climbing, as well as a shot of the Rundle Wall (also by N.R.) with some Photoshop added showing, to my mind, the best way of pitching & rapping the routes. The black spot is Brent seconding what for us was the 2nd to last
pitch (but should be the last pitch).