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    [TR] North Side of Yak Peak - Humbled Beginnings 02/14/2024

    in Ice Climbing Forum

    Posted

    All I can do it echo what the folks above like Jason, Phil,  Nic, etc have said above.  Glad you have humility about the situation and are brave enough to share the experience so everyone can learn.   Nothing wrong with dialing it back a bit and building your climbing resume more slowly.   Also if can either do a guided trip or two, or climb with some folks with a lot more experience, and do so with a "learning mindset"....i.e. asking question and absorbing as much as possible, you can go from having a scary time to having a more enjoyable time in the mountains.   Its not a race, the mountains will probably be there tomorrow and even the next day too.

    I'm really glad you and your buddy "lived to tell", and I wish you both more casual days in the hills.  You learned the hard way about a few things, and have some great advice above.

     

    Early March Conditions in the Enchantments, Route Suggestions

    in Climber's Board

    Posted

    14 hours ago, mammothclimbs said:

    Ok, great. Thanks to both of you for the advice. I think I'm likely guilty of just looking at when I have off, and hoping that some of the routes I want to climb happen to be condition, so it probably makes the most sense to just evaluate conditions and decide where to head out to at the last minute.

    Maybe you're well aware of it, but that is exactly what lead to the demise of a few climbers from out of the PNW that flew in with a vacation window and tried to make it work despite the weather (see that famous Mt Hood incident, etc).  

    Good on you for recognizing that!    IMO there are things to do no matter what the weather,  but sometimes they are just a little more mellow/less exciting...  like going to crag at Mt Erie.  Anyway it can make it more fun too as you can create a whole list of possibilities and research them all.  

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    2024 Plans

    in Climber's Board

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    10 hours ago, bedellympian said:

    My wife is due with our second in March and with the new Oregon law I have paid paternity leave for three months... ideally I'll get a little rock climbing in between changing diapers and taking care of the family before late July when I'm going to the Cirque of the Unclimbables for 2 weeks (my wife is so kind to put up with me, and my mother-in-law will come help out). After that I have no idea... maybe I'll get back into bouldering in the fall. There is plenty of easy access boulders near my house and it's easy with kids.

    Congratulations!

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    2024 Plans

    in Climber's Board

    Posted

    7 hours ago, KaskadskyjKozak said:

    What are they?  I still need to bag Stone.

    The recent ones in the Oly forums.  Mt Stone is one of my favorites, but can’t  take Kiba the last little bit because it’s Park.  Been meaning to go up Skokomish for a while though. It’s in the Park too, but it’s just an one I haven’t been up yet.

    2024 Plans

    in Climber's Board

    Posted

    What are your plans for 2024?   Not looking to get details on your super secret project, but general details to get some psych going

    This year I just want to get out and do more with my fur climbing partner.   Since my vacation time is likely already spoken for (25th wedding anniversary, hunting in AK, canoe trip to Canada, week at the ocean), it will all have to be weekend warrior stuff.

    1.  Warrior with @JasonG

    2. Repeats of my 2-3 favorite yearly Olympic hikes with variations

    3. Exploring more in the Cascades.  Dog friendly scrambles up peaks, to waterfalls, lakes, alpine.

    4. Go further.  I'm in better shape than I have been in a while, so I want to use it before its gone.

     

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    list of cc.comies you'd most like to meet

    in Spray

    Posted

    20 hours ago, ralphbo said:

    Yoooo @olyclimber, it's me, the reincarnation of slothrop. I lost access to the email address I used for cc.com... would be happy to have that account back, as regrettable as the choice of username is to me now. Please DM me if that's possible, I can tell you what the old email was.

    Hi y'all :wave: Came back a few weeks ago and took a nostalgia trip through the whole "Hardest Mox" saga and damn that was the good stuff. Was glad to see cc.com is still going hard to this day with weird stream of consciousness trip reports and random spraying.

    sent you an email!

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    [TR] The Devil's Tongue - Standard- Illegal Immigration Ridge 9/16/2017

    in North Cascades

    Posted

    38 minutes ago, JBo6 said:

    This is an incredibly delayed response but I believe that "breaker bar" is actually a mining drill bit meant to be hit with a sledge.  I've found several stashes in the Pasayten that have that same hexagonal/octagonal shape.

    Yep agree. I was just watching a youtube channel this past weekend and they were exploring an old gold mine down in California.  It was a huge adit, with passage ways going everywhere.  They found a ton of that old steel left in the mine that looked exactly like that, and you could see the business end of them where they were pretty used up.  I think you could also hook them onto a machine driven by a compressor or something? Or at least the mine in the Youtube vid had one.

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