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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Feb 25, 2018 - 04:21pm PT
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we are having another bad thaw. soloed a few laps on this fat and easy line on my way up north Saturday.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 25, 2018 - 06:40pm PT
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Trad are you going to Corte Norde. Saw some friends pictures. That place looks so cool.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Feb 26, 2018 - 03:27am PT
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Wish I had some time to take a 2 week trip to Quebec. friends are up there now and swending shots down that look better than anything I have ever seen anywhere except perhaps newfoundland....
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Feb 26, 2018 - 03:57am PT
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Feb 26, 2018 - 09:26am PT
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Reporting live from the summit of Parriot Mesa. Photos to follow take crampons!
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 26, 2018 - 09:36am PT
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Trad do you know Cheyenne. He knows lots of my friends in the black hills as he guides there in the summer. He is up there now. What does it take to get there?
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Feb 26, 2018 - 04:29pm PT
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Run into Cheyane a few times. super nice. my friends just came back from Sept isles which must be 8 or 9 hrs north of Isa's house in northern VT. its getting pretty late in the season now for everything that gets sun... Not shure what its like up there but they are on the st Laurence river which can warm things up. march has pretty strong sun... Think if I did a trip up there I would want to go in early to mid febuary... Lac Willoughby took a serious beating last week and this week is also warm and sunny. still stuff to climb but not worth a big trip INMOP. things can take a big hit in just a few days this time of year.....
It also seems that a snowmobile is pretty nessicary unless you are adapt at winter camping. My friends brought a snowmobile with them and stayed in a motel. other option is to ski in and camp which obviously is a lot more gear intensive and no way to dry ropes so you could be toast in a day or two anyways... The thought of climbing big waterfalls and not having a decent way to get everything dried out is not a pleasant one for me.
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7SacredPools
Trad climber
Ontario, Canada
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Feb 27, 2018 - 07:28pm PT
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Feb 27, 2018 - 08:51pm PT
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From yesterday’s solo of Parriott Mesa;
The ridge from Jah man to Castleton
The icy zone of potential doom, thank gawd for hiking poles
5:5 chimbly with unusual huecos
Not shown; via Ferrata, fixed static lines,etc
Six miles round trip, summit big rough to go for hikes on, 1200’ elevation gain.
This is the standard d sent route, cables added to facilitate commercial Base Jump clients they say
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 28, 2018 - 12:10am PT
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How much for a commercial BASE jump. Just got home from a nuggets loss.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Feb 28, 2018 - 07:21am PT
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have the flue.... Yukkkkkk
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 4, 2018 - 07:00pm PT
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climbed some great easy routes on great stone in boulder Canyon today. Some fun ice in rare conditions on Friday. Temps today were in the mid sixties but some stiff breeze would come in every once in a while 70’s yesterday. The sun feels good.
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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The blue route, rad!
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Mar 18, 2018 - 04:23pm PT
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Can't believe I missed a whole month in the middle of the winter! We had a huge Nasty thaw, then I had a very nasty Flu and the last weekend there was so much snow I had to ski. Skied yesterday but had to climb today. Isa is in Europe so no partner. Soloed Zephyer @ Lac Willoughby. never been on it before. Ice was funky but it climbed well in the cold temps about 30 ft from the top I ran into a funky snow slab with bare rock under it. I had decent ice to thread off so called it a day sweet butt slide down to the car
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Mar 25, 2018 - 02:22pm PT
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Its all about altitude and exposure. most of the low elevation rigs are done for the season. I skinned up a ways and bouldered a nice 2 pitch classic in 4 ish condition. still really weak and have a stuborn cough from that flu. I think its been about 5 weeks now???
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perswig
climber
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Mar 25, 2018 - 03:43pm PT
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Lotta water to carve that groove in your top pic, Trad; gnarly!
Didn't some Guard guys get slid in Smugg's recently? Maybe from Ethan Allen Mtn Warfare?
Dale
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Mar 25, 2018 - 04:03pm PT
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Those knuckle heads went up easy gully a day or so after a 2ft dump.... got flushed and lucky in that no one got killed but did send 5 guys to the hospital. still a ton of snow up there. I changed my plans for todays adventure based on snow pack.
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cintune
climber
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Mar 25, 2018 - 05:55pm PT
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Fun scramble up the 2nd Flatiron.
Absolute gorgeous day.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Mar 25, 2018 - 06:36pm PT
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some scrappy chimney and some new fairly f*#king sequential "5.8" roadside TR
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