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cowpoke

climber

Aug 11, 2009 - 08:28am PT

those two Scotland in winter pictures are tremendous...cold-sweating fear just looking at em...tremendous.

Saltydog

climber

Aug 11, 2009 - 11:12am PT

survival

Big Wall climber

A Token of My Extreme

Aug 11, 2009 - 11:25am PT

Great cool thread for a hot day!

Reilly, I was asking because that one shot below your OP doesn't say if it was on Rainier also...

My shot is from the top of Serpentine Ridge 5.9, Dragontail Peak.

Fritz

Trad climber

Hagerman, ID

Mar 2, 2010 - 03:33pm PT

Reilly: Too great a thread! Deserves another shot on the forum.

I was over on the Willis Wall side twice in the late 70's early 80's, on my way to Liberty Ridge. First trip, after driving from Idaho, we camped on the glacier well below Liberty Ridge. My buddy refused to go any higher the next morning, after spending the night listening to rock fall and ice falls on Willis Wall.

I had been in the Hayes Range in Alaska a few years before and considered that side of Ranier to be "Alaska scale."

Speaking of timing icefalls: after we backed off the North Ridge of Deborah in the Hayes Range, our next project was to climb its very well defended neighbor Mt. Hess, from the Northeast side. I had figured out a "pretty safe" route off it from up-high on Deborah and we had a "pretty bold" route up it.

The only "slight problem" was a very active icefall that I watched for most of a day, before our climb. It dumped a city block of ice about every 3 hours. I convinced my buddies that since we would only be under it for about an hour: all would be well.

The two days we were on the mountain, the icefall never dumped anything. That was good, since I lost my "pretty safe" descent route in a storm and we ended up descending right under the icefall.

Timing is everything!

Jingy

Social climber

Nowhere

Mar 2, 2010 - 03:39pm PT

cool pics above.. night B&W.. great stuff.. too bad everything looks so very cold!!!

Baltic!

Dick Erb

climber

June Lake, CA

Mar 5, 2010 - 10:52am PT

Quite an impressive undertaking Reilly. I am reminded of the naivety of my youth when I thought that the difficulty or seriousness of a route could be described with a few numbers. I also remember the short winter days in the Northwest when the daylight decreases to about eight hours per day.