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rhyang
Ice climber
SJC
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 9, 2008 - 01:11pm PT
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I decided to take a few days off work for the holidays and go stretch my legs.
Saturday I got an alpine start of 7am (haha) and headed up to the North Peak glacier to look at how the couloirs are shaping up this year -
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middle/right
I traversed up from there, hoping to do some the Northwest Ridge. Looking down at the start from where I was I decided instead to cross a suncupped snowfield to what the SP route page calls the 'second impasse'. Wish I'd taken a pic, but there's kind of a chimney-ish thing (2nd or 3rd class) which offers a view of Upper McCabe Lake -
I scrambled up to the ridge from there - here's the part I missed out on (plus the 5.3 crux :)
I headed up from there. I didn't feel strong enough to stay on the ridge proper, but took some kind of class 3-ish bypass on the right side. A view of the fun parts of the route -
After a short bit of that, the route becomes class 2 walking.
From further up -
The views were of course stellar -
At the summit I heard voices and looked down at the couloir exit - skiers ! Sure enough when I got back in town there was a post on SP from the guys who skied the couloirs.
Thought about doing the glacier route on Conness, but by then I'd had enough for one day :)
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Looks like some fun stuff.
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L
climber
Jello fan from the City of Lost Angels
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Rhyang,
Friggin' awesome photos and TR! No joking...I'm really impressed!
Weren't you injured pretty badly not so long ago? Has it been a year?
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davidji
Social climber
CA
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Glad you're getting out on the rock again!
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rhyang
Ice climber
SJC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 9, 2008 - 01:49pm PT
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Thanks guys :)
L: it's been almost 11 months. No complaints here - I could be on a wheelchair for life right now.
In about six weeks I'll go back to see my neurosurgeon to see what he thinks about me getting back to technical climbing. In the meantime I've just been doing class 3 (ish) scrambles and snow climbs.
As for the rest of my vacation, Monday / Tuesday I headed up NF Big Pine to do Mt. Winchell's east arete (also class 3). It's not really a technical objective, but here's a link to some pics - it shows some conditions from the Palisades. Haven't been back since 2005 - it always takes my breath away (literally and figuratively :)
btw as I was driving back over Tioga Pass I noticed all the clouds (it was clouding up in the afternoons in the Palisades area earlier in the week but nothing ever came of it). Looked like it rained pretty good west of Tuolumne yesterday afternoon - hard to beat the smell of the forest after rain :)
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L
climber
Jello fan from the City of Lost Angels
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Nice...wonderful to hear you've recovered so well and are getting out like this.
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Flashlight
climber
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Cool report and pictures. I was in the same place the end of July. Not sure how I missed this one the first go 'round.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Thank goodness, a fresh TR. (for me at least) and a super one.... Gorgeous pics!
You are such a great testimony to the toughness and determination of the human spirit mixed with miracle.
All the best for you in the future, Rhyang. Lynne
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Flashlight
climber
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Clint, those are great. What program did you use?
BTW, up for some west side Pinns when it cools off?
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Flashlight
climber
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Cool. Whatever you did to them didn't reduce the quality when you resaved them.
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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When I save to BMP, there is no image quality lost, because BMP does not do any compression. So I can do several rounds of line drawing with Paint, and the quality does not degrade.
Even when I convert back from BMP to JPG with IrfanView, my JPG Save settings are for 100% (no compression). Photobucket does some compression, though.
If you were to draw lines directly on a JPG with Paint, then you would lose quality every time you save, because it does a compression each time.
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hungry man
Trad climber
around
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really Kool!
Damn, people ski down that thing?!@!!!
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Kidland, 24x7, but sometimes Pasadena, CA
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Nice! Brought back some pleasant memories from a climb up the NW ridge a couple of years ago. Still looks as good as ever. Such a beautiful area.
Fletch
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there rhyang.. say, great trip.. great to hear from you with the share here... say, i can smell that wet rained woods, too...
god bless...
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Mr_T
Trad climber
Somewhere, CA
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Anyone have a good guess as to when those chutes are going to firm up into decent ice?
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Could someone tell me about this area ? I'm still way new here on the Taco. Are these rock climbs, or do you wait for snow and ice....? or both.
If they are rock climbs, could you pick one or two routes from the great overlays done and briefly describe number of pitches and difficulty rating along with mix of rock...chimney, face etc. Or is there a guidebook I should get?
Thanks, Lynne
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Could someone tell me about this area?
What Lynne said. North Peak of what? California someplace, I'm sure...
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SuperTopo on the Web
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IrfanView to crop, resize a JPG to 800 x 600 (for photobucket) and save as BMP
Let us know!