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fairweather
Mountain climber
Roseville, CA
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Moosie - I've lived in CA long enough to remember many drought years. 76-77, and 87-92 come to mind as very dry periods. Maybe Werner wasn't in the Valley then (and it was frozen many times).
Radical - If you try to squeeze my head, I'll squish you like a bug.
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WBraun
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 2, 2007 - 09:55pm PT
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I was there for both droughts.
I just said "I" have never seen the Yosemite falls freeze up like it was this morning.
In the 77 drought winter we saw fish frozen in the Merced.
Fairweather, try not let all this stuff get to your head.
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Wonder
climber
WA
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Wait wait wait, Werner, you have been in the valley for the wettest and the driest year, EVER!!
History dude!
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poop_tube
Big Wall climber
33° 45' N 117° 52' W
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WHOA! May have to give it a go if it is still there next weekend. Looks like solid 5+
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crackfiend
climber
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I was in the valley today and saw the sight myself.
went to the gallery around 11 and when driving out at around 1 half the thing had peeled off. Better climb that thing FAST.
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fairweather
Mountain climber
Roseville, CA
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Lighten up Radical - For all I know, you could be a big bug, and I wouldn't want that mess on my thumb.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Karl got cold in Yosemite and asked: How do those guys climb at Baffin? Boggles my mind
Karl, it ain't the cold that makes you cold, it's the damp. I've spent the whole month of May on Baffin Island a couple of times, and the temp pretty much never got above 0 Farenheit and was often a lot lower. No problem though, because it's so dry there it makes California look like the jungle.
Now the coastal parts of the Northwest of your country and the Southwest of mine are a whole other story. In the BC coast mountains and the Washington Cascades you can really get cold. Even though it ain't that cold, thermometer wise.
David
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Conrad
climber
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Is the ice still intact? A top rope or traxion ascent would be some kinda worthy.
Werner - was the last decent cold snap December 90? - That is when SF had pipes freeze and Walt & Kevin "had fun" on lower Sentinel. Ice is interesting in that it forms different each year depending on flow and temperatures.
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Matt
Trad climber
primordial soup
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ice is for cocktails...
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Barbarian
Trad climber
all bivied up on the ledge
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CRACK, WHISTLE, BOOM!
I used to use that for my alarm clock when I lived in the Valley. I never saw it freeze solid though.
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pimp daddy wayne
climber
The Bat Caves
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I just sent it yesterday. WI6. Very loose. Nice soft ice. Easy conditions!
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Lambone
Ice climber
Ashland, Or
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bullshit
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H
Mountain climber
you name it
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By Sunday night it was almost completely gone. But Bridalvail fails was full on. Any pictures of that out there?
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bler
Boulder climber
Alamo, CA
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there was nothing there a few weeks ago, dry as a bone.. wtf?
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there wbraun.... say, i had missed seeing this post... say, thanks for the great pic... so then, we got the ol firefall at one point, and the ol icefall, at another...
way to go, yosemite :)
*also, ricky d.. say, great share about the thundering whistle-ice...
i remember one of my last visits to yosemite (our dad, when we were kids, would never take us up in winter, so i missed out seeing yosemite that way--he got turned back during a blizzard one year, not sure what month, and that was the end of that, for the future, etc)---well, that last visit:
it was early spring, i reckon... lots of thick ice under the falls and cool crisp weather.. very beautiful--any falling ice was done, but it was so neat to see it floating and piling up in the river....
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there wbrau, say... after reading some more of this post/thread... say just how LONG have you been in yosemite...
and just WHAT ALL have you seen? my, oh, my....
i reckon your're some of the history, all right, and in many right-good way... :)
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