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  1. Trip: Broken Top - South Face Gully

     

    Date: 10/27/2007

     

    Trip Report:

    The four of us (Matt, Max, Gabe, and Kip) had the goal of doing a route up the Crater of Broken top. We were hoping to get on either 9 o'clock or 11 O'clock. Once we got a good view of them we decided not to because of the warm temps and the small amount of snow in both of the gullys. So we climbed what is called the South Face Gully in Oregon High. Just like it said we encountered some fourth and easy fifth class rock. There were a few short easy fifth class steps about 15-25ft high. Apart from one very loose, probably 3rd class, 80 meter traverse I really enjoyed the climb. We did a running belay on the upper part of the ridge. Descended the NW Ridge route and traversed around the mountain back to camp.

     

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    nearing the crater

     

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    Max coming up to the ridge

     

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    looking at the upper part of the climb

     

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    Gabe starting the very loose traverse section (we couldn't find any bomber anchors so we ended up soloing it)

     

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    looking down our route. The red line is our approximate route.

     

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    classic summit shot

     

     

    Gear Notes:

    One skinny 60m rope, slings (to tie off small trees/rock horns), one picket, ice axe

     

    Approach Notes:

    Todd Lake Road- we pushed the Subaru to the limit on the road. It made it half a mile from the BT trail head. The hike was just snow and scree.

  2. I just started climbing water ice last year and am totally hooked. I'm looking for other people who climb ice in Oregon. As far as experience I'm a beginner but have been rock climbing/mountaineering for over 5 years now. One of the most technical routes I've done so far (Alpine climbing) was the Jeff Park Glacier route on Jefferson. I just moved to Bend from the Willamette Valley so I'm especially looking for people in Bend. Always wanting to climb ice so just let me know.

     

    Please PM me!

    -Kip

  3. I'm looking at tools to buy for this winter. I'm on a budget. I'm looking to do WI and some Alpine routes with them. Maybe a bit of dry tooling but not much. What would you recommend? What about the STUBAI HORNET for 100$ each? Tools are so expensive i don't want to buy the wrong pair.

    Thanks,

    Kip

  4. friend and i did most of the trail starting from cloud cap headed clockwise (towards timberline). We talked to many people that were not doing the whole trail due to the washout and 5 people who did do the whole thing. 3 of them went up on the glacier and 2 used the ropes. We made it to about 1 mile before the washout and started to make camp - just at that time we recived a message from my friend's parents saying that they "forbide" him from crossing the washed out area. Low on food and a wee bit tired we back tracked to elk cove and then took the 5 mile trail back to the Elk Cove trail head to meet his dad who had brought us a pizza. The day turned out to be about a 22 miles day! We neved did see the wash out. next time we won't tell the parents...

     

  5. I've climbed on the coast just south of Lincoln City. This is the best stuff i've found. The highest is 30ft high. The rock is grity and best described as vertical gravel. Fun! A few cool boulder problems. some easy gear routes if you don't mind the loose, corse rock. I just did a 5.7, two 5.5s, and Top Roped a 5.8 face.

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    The Location

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    Some of the Rock

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    Jerusalem - V3/4?

     

  6. if i remember right one bolt looked good the other old/questionable. I hope i would have set up a equalized/ non-shock loading anchor but yea i wanted to get down so i could have messed up. i thought the nut was good did you think otherwise? anyways i bought it at climb max. i guess you got my other booty as well a few biners if i remember right?

     

    oh yea - thanks a lot for all the work! I love the Menagerie it's great to have people out there like you guys.

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