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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 3, 2011 - 03:24am PT
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DAYUM!
awfully convenient
search it on the tube
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colatownkid
climber
Alabama
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Yeah, and that's not even the only road-cut ice in North Carolina! There's another area on Highway 215 (aptly nicknamed "zoo fifteen") that's also good and literally a 20 foot walk from the car.
And have you heard about Toxaway, Choss Mountain, and Whitesides? When conditions are right, ice in NC can be pretty sweet.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 3, 2011 - 06:55pm PT
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Only heard about whitesides.
With the freezing temps, I wonder if anyone is getting out?
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jamatt
Social climber
Asheville, NC
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check www.carolinaclimbers.org.
there's an ice climbing board.
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The Alpine
Big Wall climber
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Been a good season up there.
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colatownkid
climber
Alabama
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Guarantee you people are getting out; I've already got five days in this season. I'm feeling pretty good about that considering it's my first season and I live in Alabama, about 7 hours from the ice.
Choss Mountain is near Linville Gorge. You walk up a draw for 15 or 20 minutes and then it's just pillar after pillar for a half mile or so. Sweet.
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tom woods
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Blows my mind fellas. We have a few spots around here in the Bishop area, but we generally have to go to 9000 feet to find it.
What elevation is that stuff at? We got to be around the same latitude.
And my students say geography is boring! Sheesh.
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Dogger1
climber
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Most NC ice is between 3500-4500'. That cold Canadian air pushes down and locks up all the water in Western NC--it's a temperate rain forest ya know.
The Alpine, are you Joe? Or did you climb SLG with him?
SS
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colatownkid
climber
Alabama
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Whitesides tops out around 4700 feet, but some of the ice is as high as five or six thousand. So, it's at a lower latitude and elevation. Pretty crazy. NC definitely picks up a lot of moisture though, so the dripping is pretty reliable. As long as it gets cold enough, you're pretty much guaranteed something will be climbable.
Just to prove it, my first lead:
And a couple weeks later, mixed climbing in a t-shirt:
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tom woods
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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I guess some of the Yosemite ice climbing starts at 5000 feet or so?
We have a few hear on the Eastside that freeze up every once and a while that at about that elevation.
One of these days, I have to head out that way to climb some of that Carolina rock. I have a friend from there, whose opinion I trust, who says the rock is incredible.
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The Alpine
Big Wall climber
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Dogger - I am not Joe. Just a buddy of his on the "look what I just did" list. Some sweet ice right there.
Tom - you absolutely MUST climb in NC. The rumors are true.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 4, 2011 - 01:12am PT
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this here is an officially climbing related winter season climbing thread.
I am Munge Climber and I approve of this thread.
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colatownkid
climber
Alabama
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Rumors are true. NC is the sh#t. (Unless you want alpine, then maybe not so much. But seriously, who goes on a pleasant Southeastern climbing tour with the intent to suffer?)
There's Gunks-style horizontals to Yosemite-style friction and cracks. There's world-class bouldering and the sweetest single-pitch cracks anywhere. You can find gnarly aid lines and even two Grade III/IV big walls that go free. Totally worth a trip.
You don't even need a ticklist. Just buy a "Classic Climbs in NC" t-shirt and a sharpie.
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Dogger1
climber
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Cool deal Alpine--thx.
We did SLH the day after he did.
Hard to beat!
SS
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Bob Ordner
Trad climber
Spokane
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Fellas,
Great Shots of classic North Carolina Ice, brings back many good memories. Here is a little historical perspective, Solid, Liquid Hurt was originally named Solid Liquid Gas by the first ascenionist Rich Gottlieb. I was on the FA team of the first pitch with Rich and Dave Fortner (now residing in Broomfield Co). Rich with the legendary Southerner Shannon Stegg did the FA of the complete route (three pitches. It is a classic by any standard.
Just to the left of route is another Rich Gottlieb, Richard Tyrell route called Rhapsody in Blue, a beautiful blue pillar, three pitches of stunning beauty.
It so rocks...
The ridges around Toxaway yeilded several other routes in particular Galadriels Mirror a great two pich (WI 3) flow over a public access waterfall that led up to more Ice pillars.
The WhiteSides routes are amazing, Star Shine is an amazing route and the scene of the first Southeastern Ice Climbing fatality when 21 year old Jeff Bates lost his balance while shooting film after the FA taking a fatal slide down the slab at the base of the route.
Mother Russia (solid 4 plus at the crux usually)(two pitches) is the flow left of Star Shine and stunning.
There is much more wild Ice climbing and stories out threre re: Southern Ice such as Shannons 80 plus fall held by tied off sickles at Rabun Bald...but enough said.
Thanks
Bob Ordner
Spokane WA
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 5, 2011 - 03:29pm PT
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no more pics from the easterners? maybe cold is a bad word right now. hope all is well tho.
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Climbing Bump
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Dogger1
climber
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Feb 15, 2011 - 09:37am PT
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Though we’ll be in shorts and sandals by the weekend we ticked off some remote though worthy FAs in the tallest range east of the Mississippi. .
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10b4me
Ice climber
Happy Boulders
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Feb 15, 2011 - 01:00pm PT
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that looks pretty damn sweet.
who knew?
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