I would take matt's advice. I never did the route but often when people tell me things are impossible I find them doable. I am not hardcore but hard headed
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Originally posted by matt warfield:
Nice work: 1-day and up the gendarme no less. Maybe you're ready for Croft style next!
I think he free soloed it Knowing Mitch.
DFA-
It's ironic how much most outdoor-sportists deride the lazy hordes that make up the bulk of America's population, and how often we suggest that they get off their asses and go do something outside, but now that Joe Sixpack has actually started doing just that, we're forced to suffer plagues of gumbies bumbling about our formerly exclusive playgrounds. Does the benefit of bringing more people into the hills and hopefully subsequently raising their awareness about the need to preserve the great outdoors outweigh the crowds and their attendant impacts? At what point will we have to stop enjoying the outdoors in order to preserve an outdoor environment worth enjoying?
I am a major gumby DFA. My guess is that some loos rock and steep ice climbing would make you one too. Don't get too high on your horse. I'm the idiot that can't crank 5.9 and 5.10 at the crags.
More ice climbing now
http://www.lexicomm.com/whites/ice/icepix98.html
http://www.codyice.com/
http://www.westwind.ab.ca/~chs/saca/iceroutes.htm
http://www.geocities.com/guide99686/
http://www.montanaice.com
Make sure you give time standards, eat gu, go super lightweight (tarp only for bivy), don't use the hut systems, no helmet. And don't forget to take your alt. sickness medicine.
Right on. You guys crack me up. I saw that myself. But did anyone use it on waterfall ice yet? Guess not. Like I said everyone raved about many other leashes in summer and found out all the flaws on the ice. I am just a skeptic and these guys want to be shit talkers. If they want to talk shit then let's do it.