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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Dec 18, 2016 - 05:37am PT
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Jim, we missed you yesterday;) the weather was Puuurrrrfect in Vermont :) I have led this climb about 20 times or so but following it yesterday with gloves frozen stiff and the wind howling, busting the ice off the biners to clean the screws I was thiking, you got to be nuts to lead this sh#t.....
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2016 - 06:44am PT
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Right on tradmanclimbs I've always said, if you van climb in New England.....you can climb ANYWHERE!
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Dec 18, 2016 - 07:07am PT
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We missed you;) I brought extra hand warmers for you...
It was actually seriously nasty there for a bit... so why exacatly do we tie ourselfs to the side on a frozen cliff, freeze half to death while dodging ice boulders for 45min while our partner tries not to die????
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2016 - 07:19am PT
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The three key ingredients for an alpine climber:
1) choose the right partners
2) be able to embrace failure
3) possess a SHORT memory
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Dec 18, 2016 - 07:34am PT
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Must be that short memory thing ;) parked in the wrong spot so we hiked twice as far as we needed to, we got spanked on our first objective so we had to thrash allong the base of the cliff for an extra half mile of unbroken trail/scrambeling, we all froze our butts off and at the end of the day we were happy.......
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2016 - 07:35am PT
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Yep!
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chainsaw
Trad climber
CA
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Dec 19, 2016 - 03:53pm PT
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Holy shyt! What are yall doin up there? I hate cold! You guys got big balls!
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Dec 19, 2016 - 06:45pm PT
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Not a storm story but went ice climbing in -28 weather a few years back after having done only warmer ice climbing (-10 to +5 C) for a long time.
I said to my partner "Now I remember why I quit ice climbing in -28"
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 19, 2016 - 07:00pm PT
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"Oh, crap, I forgot my chalk bag!"
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