Joe_Poulton

Just a backcountry ski trip to Rainier so far...I'm taking the artwork up either Saturday or Monday. Take a look just in case I bet you up to the store...

Just a bit after rooster rock at a fishing lake...cross the tracks and old highway and you're there! The big wide flow has a lower portion of about 40-60 feet that looked great.

Nothing...can't solo at this level of ice. Just went to see what was actually frozen. I've got someone coming out from Denver to climb with in the next few weeks.

Recent Gorge Ice as of 1/24/08 Recent Gorge Ice as of 1/24/08

I'd say...you want ice and your new...plan a trip to Vail for a weekend. Fly out on a Friday Night, climb Saturday, Fly back Sunday Night...if you want something a bit more remote..Lincoln Falls south of Breckenridge. That's where I learned...good fat ice...if the avy danger isn't too high when your there hit up the Shroud...stop by Food Hedz in Frisco, Co...ask the head chef if there's anyone to hit some ice with...if not his food is great...then call a guide.

I'm going up Cooper Spur Saturday/Sunday 15/16 then maybe ski down Cooper Spur or over at the Snow Dome on Hood NF. You got a Beacon?

When, where, how long? Can it be done in a weekend? I'll take Photos with my Canon 30D...???

Nice!

Awesome!!

Get the Guide Book published by Supertopo and written by Joe Puryear

Ask AAI (American Alpine Institute) in Fairhaven...basically Bellingham. They might know.

Can't wait to take greyhound there and bash my X-monsters into some ice cracks!!

So, sounds like a better ski run then a climb right now...any cornices developing near the top of the face?

Great Job! Leavenworth Rocks!!!!

Kewl! This will be useful!

...Reality. People, more people are climbing so naturally many different attitudes arise. It's like how Snowboarding brought a different set of ideals to the Mountain at it's creation.

I was out climbing various places with Denver as a hub...now I've moved back to P-town...but the only thing I notice is not just locally. The persona of climbing is changing...respect is degrading in some standards...the recent event on Hood...the climbers on Everest walking by others that were dieing and didn't even try to help. It's a sad recognition of....

I'm back...with more years under my belt. If anyone still thinks you "conquer" a mountain that was on this post...well are you still climbing? Do you still think that way? By the way Mountains still are my Cathedral and have been since High School. So spiritually and scientifically they do talk...weather/snow quality/ ice tools melding with the ice as they make that perfect sound/moments of self understanding....just holla back if you wanna debate?

Hey Dreimer...if you can find a competent partner...given the scope of your goals I'd go for the Success Cleaver of Rainier. It is a great route with some air...but no glacier travel except for the summit field. One more is that you can be away from the crowds of the standard routes...if you ever get on that route...you'll see the other options right away! But first, get that Self-arrest and crevasse rescue dialed! Peace

Then ask this to yourself: Christian/Islam/Jewish/Mormon/ Native American/ Wiccan does not matter, if someone approached a place of spiritual worship with some political legislative ideal in their favor that stated that you can not stake claim to the evidence found in the Bible because those ideals our not found hear in our geological record of the strata with in the earth that we have revealed! We would all be disrespected in our own chosen houses of spiritual worship...are not the National Parks and Wilderness establishments our place to learn of the Earth's understood history? Why must views be protected/banned...freedom of speech...we all have views and right now Islam and Christian views continue to clash...It's as if all the ice cores from the Antarctic were never pulled? But then again what the F%$^& do we know besides the fact that we die and were born?

So anyone know if Bob Martin is still kick'n his feet somewhere? He did the first ascent of the Castle Crags, as I was told be my Father. I think back in the '80s. Props Olegv! Awesome pics...that one on the rime is it just effects of Alpenglow or is it a slight after effect of infared?

Ah, beautiful! Just imagine, A partial ice age here on the west coast and the Gorge will go from a Wind Surf'n mecca to the Vail and Silverton style mecca...Multnomah Falls, not just a straw but a thick, solid pillar of fate. I heard that it mostly froze completely back in the '70s, maybe we're on the verge of that kind of year? It would be nice to have a ice playground here! Peace

Well, Ok... I thought the person who could close a topic was the person who started the topic, guess I won't be closing it...huh

For your Alpine Rack get the longest sewn runners you can buy to reduce rope drag on those zig-zag routes, with a 1-2 pickets/snowflukes and an ice screw or two. Make sure you get 2 pulleys for crevasse rescue and go up only with someone well versed in this. A glacier is no place to run around with someone who does not know how to self-arrest. Get a lot of tubular webbing. For your Trad rack go for lots of Hexes, chocks (DMM Walnuts, HB Offsets, BD Stoppers). Get a variety of lengths for your runners. Since you might lead straight up above a ledge for about 20 feet, so you want short quick draws. Then you might begin to zig-zag and you'll have to have medium to long runners for reducing rope drag. Then a sport rack is obvious, but I suggest you get used to leading trad before sport that way when you are a 5.10 sport climber and want to start trad you don't take a fall and have your gear pop out of the rock because you thought you could climb it, and you didn't really know how to place the gear properly. You can even practice to lead on a top-rope that way you can test how well you are placing your gear. Take it easy, Joe

Well, I think that was a good string of thoughts for all of us. If no one adds to this over the next week, I am going to close it. Thank you everyone. This web site is well worth it.