Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Dec 18, 2008 - 10:31pm PT
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Has the waterfall on Basket dome been ice climbed? Surely it must freeze over?
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Walleye
climber
El Portal On the Merced Riviera
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Dec 18, 2008 - 10:33pm PT
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Well, I'm glad we got that settled.
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WBraun
climber
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Dec 18, 2008 - 10:37pm PT
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Hahaha yeah
Jaybro, This one?
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Dec 18, 2008 - 10:46pm PT
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Cat's outa the bag...
Stuff yerself into knickers Walleye, ASAP.
We gotta get there 'for them other boyz!
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Walleye
climber
El Portal On the Merced Riviera
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Dec 18, 2008 - 10:46pm PT
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Yeah right. Nobody goes out to climb that rig when the weather is good (read approach too far) hence nobody will go for the ice if and when whenever.......
Basketcase Jaybro, Basketcase........
Seriously though, really,......... seriously.. There is not enough flow at the cold times of the year for that thing to be doable.
Tarbaby, I'm in my leather laderhosin sp.. Lets go!
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Dec 18, 2008 - 10:52pm PT
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I plead the Basketcase defense.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2008 - 11:01pm PT
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you can plead that case, Jaybro, those days are long past...
blue cheer to you, dude...
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rwedgee
Ice climber
canyon country,CA
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Dec 18, 2008 - 11:17pm PT
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We were the only people in camp 4 but that night. Widows Tear came down @ ~2am. We hiked the falls and top roped the top 2 pitches in '03(?) Got soaked as the temps went higher and higher. If you peeled the wind would take you away so you had to jug with crampons(a 1st for me) and start over. Fun outing, A+ for exposure.
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hossjulia
Trad climber
Eastside
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Dec 19, 2008 - 07:56am PT
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A+ for expouser is right!
Thanks for that.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Dec 19, 2008 - 08:24am PT
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As usual, Tar hits the nail on the head!!!!1111
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spyork
Social climber
A prison of my own creation
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Dec 19, 2008 - 10:25am PT
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If you act quick Ed, there are ice screws on the front page.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 19, 2008 - 11:55am PT
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Ice screws?! We don't need no stinkin' ice screws!
got lots more than I ever use these days... cold averse partners...
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
somewhere without avatars.........
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Dec 19, 2008 - 12:34pm PT
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I like Werner's thinking...
I always laugh when I see/read about people clamoring to get to Lee Vining. There is SUCH good ice throughout Cali, if you just think a little and are willing to walk farther than 500 yards from the road. Pretty typical, lazy climber mentality though. But, hey - as long as guys keep playing on WI3 noob routes in LV, the really good ice is left for others.
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fosburg
climber
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Dec 19, 2008 - 05:02pm PT
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Klaus was right! I've been seemingly usurped by none other than the man himself. For the record: Walt Shipley and I climbed the actual Nevada Falls. I don't think anyone else did it that year though it was in thicker than usual. Jeff Hornibrook and I climbed the obvious flow to the observer's right several years prior.
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Walleye
climber
El Portal On the Merced Riviera
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Dec 19, 2008 - 05:14pm PT
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And the Score officially is:
Old English 800 Malt Liquor 1
Lotus Flowers 0
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hossjulia
Trad climber
Eastside
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Dec 20, 2008 - 08:36am PT
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yeah, Lee Vining ice is pretty much dead.
(As I look out my window at a frozen waterfall.)
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Dec 29, 2012 - 06:05am PT
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Nevada Falls must have been awesome.
I agree, for example, I hear there are some lines at June Lake.
Still LV ain't that bad. Try ice climbing in Ireland. Perhaps in a Blue Moon. In a very good and cold winter maybe North Prison Gully on Lugnaquillia in the Wicklow Mountains.
Now, Ben Nevis and Glen Coe (and carignhorns etc) in wee Scotland...
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10b4me
Boulder climber
Somewhere on 395
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Dec 29, 2012 - 09:07am PT
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I always laugh when I see/read about people clamoring to get to Lee Vining. There is SUCH good ice throughout Cali, if you just think a little and are willing to walk farther than 500 yards from the road. Pretty typical, lazy climber mentality though. But, hey - as long as guys keep playing on WI3 noob routes in LV, the really good ice is left for others.
Huh?
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hossjulia
Trad climber
Where the Hoback and the mighty Snake River meet
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Dec 29, 2012 - 09:21am PT
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Old posts, funny stuff.
Anyone else notice how thick the sarcasm is in my last post?
Probably not.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 29, 2012 - 10:54am PT
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I know of a 1000' waterfall that freezes reliably every winter in the Sierras.
It is called Too Far To Walk Falls.
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