Sol

beautiful!

what he said.

What boots do you use for Splitboarding? For that matter, ever ride Baker area? I use burton moto's right now.... I spent 8 years living in the ham and had 6 season passes at baker over those 8 years. Lots of days in the baker backcountry, miss it bigtime.

The Drip has formed a ton more new ice in the last 5 days. Still not as phat as it usually is later on in the year. Did see a car parked at the pullout today on my way to work though...

stuart glacier coulour ice cliff glacier that coulour on enchantment peak north buttress coulour on colchuck ...

rumor is that it's not even close to forming.

"TITO!"

it's interesting hearing about all these ascents. looking at lowell's list over the years, i've always felt that there was lots of ascents missing, ecspecially along mt baker hwy. not that it has anything to do with lowell's reporting but more of a slack in information by skiers/snowboarders, or ignorance that the database even exists. it'd be cool to fill in the gaps.

sounds fun, but we've got a different type of vacation planned.

Dragons of Eden, Dragontail Pk. - IV+ 5.12- An exposed and challenging free-climb up one of the most iconic peaks in the Stuart Range. Long, technical, and steep. P4: The crux, 5.12- (photo by Max Hasson): P7: Double roofs, 5.11- (photo by Max Hasson): P8: The Great White Headwall 5.11+ (photo by Max Hasson): Trip Report Really, really hard to choose my favorite. The 3 runner-ups: East Face, Main Gunsight III 5.10+ Megaladon Ridge, Mt. Goode IV+ 5.10+ Heavens Gate/Golden Road - UTW, Index

Me too!

NICE!

You must be new. This is cc.com. I'm not and I know. Just trying to make this pile a bit more useful.

I don't know how you guys are really going to learn anything when you use such a caustic tone with each other. It will proabaly be a bit more productive if you guys starting using some modifiers: "what has worked for me...", " that's interesting, but in my experience...." Just a thought... Kimmo, is it really worth your time to respond to every minute detail of every single post? Personally I enjoy your posts about training and your ideas about hard rock climbing, but remember you are posting to what is a mostly alpine based climbing message board that proabaly have a hard time understanding that for some, "hard" rock climbing, doesn't even begin until 5.13. Personally, I very much beleive in periodization for what my goals in climbing are: free ascents of long, technical, traditional alpine rock climbs (Dragons of Eden, Vanishing Point, Thin Red Line, The Tempest, etc.). I agree that if your main focus is single pitch sport, trad, or bouldering, you can improve simply by working your fingers, movements, and forearms, and that that improvement can come somewhat quickly and simply once one knows how to train for it. From there there is a wide range of skills to focus on as one moves across the wide spectrum of climbing styles, say from technical rock climber to mixed/iced alpininst, to full on slogger. Each type of climbing will improve with a different ratio of focused skill sets. Training for technical rock climbing is proabaly the simplest. I've had a couple of good seasons in the last couple of years and have learned alot about training as it relates to my goals in climbing. Over the holiday break I should have time to post more about what I think works for climbers with similar goals.

16 F on Dirty Face-5990'

Nice cold snap running through with an overnight low in ltown of 22. When I saw the moon rising tonight I couldn't help thinking about some monekeys who must be loving life up at Colchuck lake right now. Full moon tomorrow, better go get some.

60 degrees w/no kicker board it's nice to decrease the angle a bit for the last 1/2 panel of so

Ignition II or Fuze?

one belayer for the lead line. the other off to the right to prevent a swing left into the arete (like the fall frenchmen Jean mieh-trieu takes in the beginning of hard grit, on the same route). though short, the gritstone climbing looks really fun!

NICE! more youtube video

That's cool. But I still think Haston (or was it Moon?) should show more respect for the long and happy history that beer and climbing have together. I must admit, last night I trained hard while drinking beer. It was fun.

i'd agree that most of his routes blow. and that monstrosity on the south side of SEWS is a travesty.

May have left my Ipod somewhere along the Powerhouse Wall last friday, the 21st. Anybody find it? Thanks.

Gotta say Russ, with all the local scrubbing, rebolting, bolt-chopping, first ascenting, and exploration you been doing, your my hero. I'm sure all those who've partaken in your refurbirshed crags (Hobo Hill, Warrior Wall, etc.) would agree. Can't wait for you to get home and we can start training!