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waltereo01
Trad climber
Montreal, Canada
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Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 5, 2008 - 12:27am PT
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Hi,
I'm wondering how many people climb Lotus Flower Tower per year ?
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marky
climber
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Averaged over the past 20 years, I'll say LFT gets 1.42 ascents per year.
Of course that was pulled out of my ass.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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I know you googled it... and found this definitive site:
http://www.geocities.com/gibell.geo/cirque/
don't know how many go in, but it is not that remote anymore...
...the "50 Classic Climbs in North America" was the 70's precursor to SuperTopo guides in funneling climbers onto specific climbs... LFT was one of those.
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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I got a truely great trip report from a swiss friend about climbing the LFT:
"...For the lotus flower, I indeed climbed this piece of roc more than 20 years ago (yes about half my lifetime!). My advises are therefore probably quite dusty. Anyway, there used to be a Tungsten mine (I heard once that activities stopped there but the road is probably still existing) about 3 hiking days for the base camp. Half of us took a small air plane to the lake (~5 hours from base camp) with the stuff and the other half walked from the mine. The hike is very strenuous as long as you stay in the valley because of the vegetation and the absence of any trail (at least at that time). It is much easier if you follow the ridges and stay above the altitude where you have almost no vegetation (that is possible almost all the way if you plan carefully).
You have however to walk on the snow and you need at least to cross a medium-size glacier if you follow a approximately direct route. We did all that with tennis shoes but that was probably a mistake. At one point, we were going down the glacier in a rather thick smog, the slope was steepening continuously and we were very happy to find a solid rock on the side before it got too steep. The area is suppose to host Grizzlies and Francoise was quite afraid of them, especially because we were sometime following their tracks. We climed in 2 days, there is a very confortable horizontal ledge at the middle (you can sleep probably up to 6-8 there). We upsailed down rather than following the traditional way down. We left some cheap gears there, but we thought it was safest. My most important advise is: go there with some good weather. We were lucky enough to have more than a week of beautiful whether, but we did hear some people staying two weeks in a storm and going back without having climbed anything! One more thing, if you decide to hike, you will have to cross a few rivers, which depending on the water level, can be relatively difficult. We ended cutting small trees with a swiss knife to cross one of them.
Cheers,
Pierre"
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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"We ended cutting small trees with a swiss knife to cross one of them."
What the...?
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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i'm guessing they made rafts
knowing pierre, the description of the river crossing of "relatively difficult" meant the river was a roaring, angry deathtrap of white water.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Craig Clarence, professional Taco Lurker has an amazing TR. for this climb, which was just a pit stop for the river trip that took them through the northern wilderness. Post up CC.
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MisterT
Trad climber
little blue truck
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I was on the trip with Craig. a real adventure....
trip report here:
http://www.electricant.net/grundyman/nahanni.html
although I fear some of the links are broken by now.
pic for those too lazy to follow the link...
This pic was taken starting the 3rd rap down, around 9 pm, before the rain, before the sleet, before the snow, and before the stuck rope...
I am guessing anywhere from 6 to 50 people climb it a year, there were at least 4 parties there when we were there, and I know at least one of them also summited.
--=Tom
edited to include a pic and caption
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waltereo01
Trad climber
Montreal, Canada
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 6, 2008 - 02:14am PT
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Yeah, the video is awesome ! Thanks for the link
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Mister T, thanks for the post, what an awesome adventure. Craig related the story to me a while back, it is nice to see it in print. Damn and to think Craig started the trip weighing 250 pounds, what a fat burner.
Cheers,
Jude
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Feb 24, 2016 - 09:31am PT
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Bump, on my bucket list
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