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Trip: Sick Times at Hyalite - Date: 12/19/2010 Trip Report: Climber/Photographer Ben Herndon and I went to Hyalite for a week of climbing, partying and photography. Our first few days there we participated in the Bozeman Ice Fest 2010. I had never been to a festival before and I can tell you this one is wayyy fun. Great shows on Guy Lacell, from Will Gadd and many others, kept the stoke up in high gear. Each evening we were driven crazy by the presentations and the hot ice climbing chicks there. Sorry no photos of the chicks. Anywhoo, every thing else here is fat and blue. Some of the low hanging fruit climbs are a little picked out, but the walker will be rewarded. Day 1: Craig and Marko tried Rocket Boy after we did the new ascent of its first pitch. Day 2 We go on a solo binge of Hangover, Genesis 2 , and top it off with Golden Mean , all in the 2 hrs before dark. This last shot is Me messing around in the cave by Golden Mean. Neat stuff. Day 3: I hook up with Jessica (ICMNTS.) And Geoff to do laps on the 2 Twin Falls, Sweet routes in the 3-4 range. Day 4 : I catch a bad cold and rest in the Window Rock Cabin. Day 5 : I get on a couple of sickies, Good Lookin One and Black Magic. Day 6. More sickness in my chest and head , I need ICE! Cleopatras and the amazing Airborne Ranger! Huge thanks to Marko, Ben, Craig, Bozeman Ice Fest, and Pro Mountain Sports for the best ice gear available BUY LOCAL!! More on my Blog, :link below.

I just got back and did some great ones . link below. Going to be doing a full tr here soon. Have fun there. I am headed back in a week for more.

Update on the festival fun, more content will be added this week. Update

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Heck yeah! Im in. Thanks for posting that.

Ha yourself. I dislodged one 3 feet long and it got stuck in the back of my legloop. It looked like I had to pull it out of my arse!

we should all call his posted phone # at 9;30 pm to get an update!

My friends said the pullman area is littered with cars in the ditch. May not be so bad up north

Was thinking of going out there next week. Has anyone been out to see if the ice is in? I know the roads out east are really bad right now. Thanks in advance

How did it go Marko?

Dittos to that, thanks Vern and Dan for the tr privileges.

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Too bad it takes so long for the ice to build. I am chomping to get out, but gotta be patient. this could be the year I get my project done?

Bozeman 2 low for Zero, Kananaskis Skookum Black Spider Idaho Sorcerer

Rad! Thanks for sharing that, Is that on Strawberry?

Great report, thanks! cant wait till feb!

..Looks great!

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coming up from Pullman. would like to try McClellen. 5.8- 5.11 range

Try McClellan instead. I know nothing about it , though Beau went there and said it was awesome. Message me when you are in town and the weather is good, I am close enough to join you,W

You are spot on mr.

Damn, Sincere condolences to the many grieving people right now. My fondest memory of Joe was helping fix the A/V fiasco at one of his latest slide-shows at Feathered Friends. I held the broken cable through the entire show. Occasionally it would short out . He was unflappable and made light of the difficulties. What a great person to have known.

Trip: Index - Centerfold, Rattletale Date: 10/16/2010 Trip Report: Fargo and I hit the Diamond area last weekend. Now that he is a Puget Sound guy and all, we got to do multi-pitch routes and not have to worry about the short days. Centerfold is a stout route, and I would translate the grades to 4 pitches of 5.11 according to the softer grades that one would find at, say Smith or Leavenworth. There is just no denying the difficulty of the variety of grades we found on the 3 different topos. Anyhow, great climb though. The first pitch is so very balancy and the foot moves are dicy friction. Here is Orion leading it after we were rappelling. The money pitch for me was the second. Just the most fun lead for sure It has been a long time since I ran out of small stoppers on a lead!. Pitch 3 featured the most absurd move of all. Neither on of us could do it clean. 1 topo rated it 10b! HA!! Pitch 4 wasnt to hard, but I took my only lead fall on it because I have such huge fingers. The route is falling back to nature, More people should do it to keep it clean. It was surprising day for having had lots of rain 2 days before. Go get it this week. More on my blog below.