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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 12, 2017 - 12:50pm PT
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Have fun Jim. Where are you ice climbing?
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mooch
Trad climber
Tribal Base Camp (Kernville Annex)
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Dec 12, 2017 - 12:55pm PT
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Have fun, Jim! Hopefully you'll get mostly decent weather. Went there in 2008 and 2009......the later year had me socked in for 10 days of sh*t weather.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 16, 2017 - 10:30pm PT
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climbed in vail today it was awesome.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 23, 2017 - 03:17pm PT
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Nice Nick. Came over to the dark side? Nomics? Finally got in the mighty Moffit Tunnel Ice last night. Where you can throw tools right above where the train goes through the continental divide. Went up to Georgetown this morning where things were looking a little thin but we got in a couple of steep topropes.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Dec 23, 2017 - 04:47pm PT
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Looking Good mike :) that is Isa climbing. santa gave her new boots. her first day in single boots and loving it :) I still rock the X dreams but added pick weights this season.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Dec 23, 2017 - 07:20pm PT
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all I got today was roadside highball laps in the poaring rain in blue jeans :)
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the museum
Trad climber
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Dec 23, 2017 - 08:41pm PT
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Wir kletterten auf die krumholtzen
the museum
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Dec 28, 2017 - 05:36pm PT
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While all my friends were bitching about the cold temps I meandered over to Willard. Crack of 1:30pm alpine start. -11f in the parking lot and wind gusts to 40mph. The climbers paths were all drifted in so it was a bit of work getting to the base of lower Hitchcock. At least the wind was mostly behind me. Did I mention that mid Xmass week there was No problem finding a parking spot ;) Would have been a good day to get on the Dike :)
Anyways I digress. LHMW was fat, boring and colder than Donald trumps heart. Beat my way through the drifts up to Upper Hitchcock. The wind was really honking up here, even in the trees it was a chore to switch out the clumsy Kinkos for the new EMS summit gloves that Santa brought. I could actually climb in the Summits despite them being a full on warmth glove. Not sure I would choose them for leadeing grade 5 unless it was single digits but they do get the job done in the cold. There was so much ice in upper Hitchcock that the top of it felt like a squeeze chimney and my pack was scrapeing the rocks above me and the swings were cramped. Wind was ripping through here. The 2nd pitch crux was ackward mostly due to extra layers, frozen over glasses and bullet hard fracturing ice, started to lose a few fingers and toes but got them back fighting the drifts to the summit. had to put the battery in my mouth to take the photos of Hitchcock and the summit. Hikers trail down was well packed but still a bit brisk :) The whole thing reminded me that I don't climb ice when it is below 0 farenhight :) Back at the chevy van @ 4pm sharp it was still a steady -11f :)
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WBraun
climber
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Dec 28, 2017 - 05:41pm PT
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Minus 11 degrees Fahrenheit, YKES!!!
I was north of Duluth Minnesota in winter a few years in ago working on lake superior and it was -60 degrees Fahrenheit with wind chill there in the mornings.
I did NOT like ....... :-)
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Dec 28, 2017 - 06:41pm PT
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-11 in the parking lot. I have a slight inkling that it was a wee bit nippier up on the mountain ;)
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 29, 2017 - 06:24am PT
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Dec 31, 2017 - 03:45pm PT
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Gaby takes the sharp end
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7SacredPools
Trad climber
Ontario, Canada
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Dec 31, 2017 - 04:17pm PT
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A fine looking crag Yanqui; what's it called?
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WyoRockMan
climber
Grizzlyville, WY
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Dec 31, 2017 - 05:17pm PT
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Spent the last couple of days playing in the backyard.
Day1- -8f with wind to 40mph in town, hoping the point forecast of 34f in the valley was going to be accurate. Drove through the front into a beautiful calmness and reasonable temps.
Climbed "Stringer" as it was on the list of moderates I haven't done yet. Despite the popular notion that it is a two pitch climb, there are actually 4 pitches. The hike to the 4th took about 45 minutes, with the occasional thigh deep snow punching.
A casual 20 minute approach and a couple 5m steps of "ice bouldering" brings you to the start of P1. A 45m smear in a large flaring chimney.
P2/3 are 20m steps of easy ice.
More ice bouldering and snow slogging brings you to P4, which proved worth the hike.
On the way down, we had hoped to hop on the first pitch of "Slow Turning", but the cold front had dropped the temps by about 40 degrees to below zero. Being wet from the day and now flash freezing we skipped the bonus and headed for town.
Top of P1
I love ewe!
Day 2- Same weather forecast, -9f in town, warm in the valley.
Due to a number of "micro avalanches" we observed and the high winds forecasted, we shifted our objective to the classic "Broken Hearts"
The conditions were blustery, or "Scottish" so the camera stayed in the pocket most of the day. The first four pitches of Broken Hearts are all WI3/3+ with a substantial amount of "ice bouldering" up to 15m in some cases. Tons of postholing took us to the 5th pitch amphitheater.
Feeling "light", we bailed at this point. The climb on the left is an Alex Lowe rig, "Carotid Artery" WI6. This is the fattest I've ever seen it. Mortals could do it. (not this one though).
A fine couple of days.
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tom woods
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Dec 31, 2017 - 05:37pm PT
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Bouldered at the Tungstens today. Shirts off. Funny how a cold snap one place is a heat wave in another.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Dec 31, 2017 - 06:04pm PT
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Looks awesome! We bailed from the summit ridge. so cold I only got this one shot of us starting out. skinned about 5 miles and bailed a 3rd of a mile from the summit. It was blowing pretty hard and -30f ambient.. I was not super worried about the frost bite on my face as I have had that a lot shooting ski raceing but Isa was pretty concerned about it. My big concern and the reason I called it was I lost my feet.. It really sucked skiing down with frozen bricks for feet... .. come to think of it the skiing kind of sucked anyways. windblown crust. kept the skins on for the first 2 1/2 miles.... still a pretty fun day....
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Dec 31, 2017 - 07:31pm PT
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7Sacreds: The granite dome is called "Torres Gemelas". It's in the Sierras of Córdoba in Argentina. Ther are 14 routes on the dome and about 300 more in the surrounding area.
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johnkelley
climber
Anchorage Alaska
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Dec 31, 2017 - 07:45pm PT
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The FA of Chhopa Bamare East but failed to reach the main summit. Here’s my tent sitting a little below the summit of East while I tried to reach the main summit
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