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WyoRockMan
climber
South Fork of the Shoshone
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Oct 19, 2015 - 01:57pm PT
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I swear the Wyoming backcountry is like Christmas every time.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Oct 19, 2015 - 02:10pm PT
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Wyoming's great but, hey, it's Oct. 19th.....all of the Wyo. 22 plates are in Indian Creek and everyone knows that all of the climbers in Wyo. live in Teton County.
Edit: at least the ones with trust funds
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WyoRockMan
climber
South Fork of the Shoshone
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Oct 19, 2015 - 02:31pm PT
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It was 70F this weekend when the pic was taken. But point taken on the "sub-par" weather. Generally.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 19, 2015 - 05:31pm PT
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As we all know, county 22 is not part of Wyoming!
It's part of Idaho, Holywood or boulder or something..
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Oct 19, 2015 - 05:37pm PT
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In IC people follow 22's around. Sometimes they leave behind shiny new cams that daddy bought.
Jaybro...Jackson isn't in Idaho, it's Boulder Norte.
Edit: and you also have...
New Paltz....Boulder Este
Eugene....Boulder Oeste
Austin....Boulder Sur
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 19, 2015 - 05:44pm PT
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That's what I said
You won't catch people from Baggs or Meteetse, dropping cams like that!
Actually I bootied a new red Camelot out of Binou's the other day, and there was an Acura with 22 plates in that parking lot......
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norm larson
climber
wilson, wyoming
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Oct 20, 2015 - 03:24pm PT
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Not all of us in 22 have trust funds or drop new shiny cams for you to find. Many moved here for the alpine climbing and winter in the Tetons and proximity to the Winds. And by the way Jim, many of those anchors which you bring the hordes of people to in Indian Creek were put in by some of us. Wilson may not be Wyoming but it's pretty damn close to it. Which when it's time to vote isn't always a good thing.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Oct 20, 2015 - 03:32pm PT
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Norm, I'm tongue in cheek. I love both the Tetons and Boulder....he'll, I got married in Jackson Hole two times. That's twice as many times as any other venue.
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WyoRockMan
climber
South Fork of the Shoshone
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It took until November this year, but summer is finally over.
One more week and the tools come out!
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 26, 2015 - 03:56pm PT
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Can't wait to get back. Happy thanksgiving.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 7, 2016 - 11:08pm PT
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Don't forget the marvelous Granite Mountains in central Wyoming. For years after my 50th birthday I would spend a week up there each summer soloing on these beauties.
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bazo qop
Boulder climber
Lexington ky
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Lankin Dome!
Sweet.....
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WyoRockMan
climber
Grizzlyville, WY
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Feb 15, 2016 - 12:04pm PT
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I finally got on a true Wyoming ice classic this weekend. We have had an extended period of unseasonably warm weather and we were hoping that the deep canyon of the Clark's Fork would preserve enough ice to climb.
The climb is not visible from the road and is guarded by a long 3/4 mile approach. You lose close to 2,000 vertical feet of elevation from the road to the bottom of the canyon. The trail is faint (ha!).
An hour of downhilling gets you to a small section of ice to down climb to the river. So I had heard. The ice was gone, so we had a super sketchy mossy "scramble" to the river.
Once at the river a bit of navigation takes you downstream to the climb. We couldn't find a reasonable way to cross, so we spent a little over an hour collecting appropriate logs to span the river from the ice on either side. Serious DFU crossing.
Why all this bother? Because:
All that was left was to reverse the approach. A couple hours of 4X4 hiking and we were back to the truck.
This may have been my favorite ice climb to date.
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WyoRockMan
climber
Grizzlyville, WY
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Feb 20, 2016 - 10:40am PT
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I bailed, because I'm not hard.
Time for rock.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 20, 2016 - 11:29am PT
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HARD ENOUGH
Righteous !
Nice kickin'
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 20, 2016 - 06:06pm PT
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I don't remember that one at post creek
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WyoRockMan
climber
Grizzlyville, WY
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Feb 20, 2016 - 06:23pm PT
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That's because it's not at Post Cr. Mike. Well north of there.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 20, 2016 - 09:16pm PT
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How much north?
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Dingus McGee
Social climber
Where Safety trumps Leaving No Trace
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Feb 21, 2016 - 03:43am PT
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WyoRockMan,
You lose close to 2,000 vertical feet of elevation from the road to the bottom of the canyon. The trail is faint (ha!).
I have spend some time looking at these meta granites [shattered] for rock climbing.
2000 ft ? Do you mean 1400 ft. There is no place of any practicalness for a descent where the road is 2000' above the creek since you can drive up the 2-track which goes along the Clark to Rapid Creek.
Were you on the fishing trail/descent that is just east of Dead Indian Creek?
I have had the same crossing troubles with the Clark's Fork of the Yellowstone in February. Some -30F cold canyon bottom air in January might make the crossings easy but the hike a little cold.
You can count on these wall to wall water creeks to be frozen good enough for hiking up when the temps have been -30F for a week but not just shade and 20F is enough to make crossings passable. There is too much winter water flow and falls in something of this size where temps are not polar all the time to keep surface ice intact everywhere.
Some creeks with lot of flow freeze from the bottom upward. Spearfish creek at Spearfish can get bottom ice.
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