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alex, what is the climb on the left?

where are they at? the routes you bolted?

HAPPY BIRTHEDAY FUCKER! Hope that Mark is beating your ass into the ground. :rocken: :rawk: :fahq:

anyone go in there last weekend? temps look like it has been cold enough for the last several days...

climbers left of G2, fat as I have ever seen it

Purcahsed this last weekend for ice and alpine. Figuered since I dont fall on ice might as well shave the balls and go light. So I did and it wasnt too bad. Climbed maybe 15 pitches in it this last week in cody. I definetly liked the leg loops and how easy it is to take a crap or just take off with leaving the crampons on. The spots for the ice clippers could be better. They move around a bit. The tie in buckle for the harness is a pain there are two buckels but I didnt have any problems them freezing or anything. I was worried that this harness would cut my spleen in half when rappeling but actually wasnt uncomfortable. Wouldn't want to climb the captian in it though. My 2 cents. for $50 I would recomend. light and functional but wouldnt use it for anything where i think i am going to fall or have to hang in it for any type of extended time period.

dude go climb after image or strawberrry mountain!

eastern oregon.......

I wish i could have bet that when this thread started all YOU would wet your panty's and get your sphincter so tight you would be clenched like vice for days. Lighten up. Have a beer. Go Sking. Go Climbing. Stop letting spray get you down.

that is if his heart is made of cold forged steel and beats to the drum of snow flakes and the sounds of picks on rock:)

stunning man.....very jealous!

for sure bob

rope solo.....mini traxin'

saw this on the mammut athlete blog, do you know who this is and where he is climbing?

been hella warm out there in past weeks. I keep my eye on the temps at snow pass ski resort, the temps are getting down, but the ground temps are still pretty warm I bet. Possibly could be some ice out there late this weekend. But I bet by thanksgiving you could swing some tools out there.

CJB: please STFU

yeah thats what I was thinking. thanks for clarifying.

Umm it doesnt work like that if you were to head directly across the face from the saddle you end up not far under the actual ice climbs. I have done this three times and you end up maybe couple hundred feet under the ice climbs, the best traverse starts above the saddle and puts you on the same terrace as the bottom of the ice climbs. When Alex did the lowe direct they started way down at the bottom of the face....probably 800-1000 vertical feet under the cilmbs. I guess I am just having trouble figuring out how the day ended up so screwed. I want the real story:)

dude...props on the driving. Ummm I am a little confused though: You climbed from the base of the sphnix to the actual ice then traveresed to the saddle? How did you get to the base? On purpose? I mean that trail is pretty distinct and with all the elk hunters our and about I have trouble believing that there wasnt a boot pack all the way to the saddle.... I guess I am just curious about why you didnt hike to the saddle then climb the actual ice route instead of scraping up that shitty rock? the earl trimble and the Lowe are in BTW.

the f'in czar has spoken glad to see a democratic process at work your thought porcess is funny: i want it to be called the Drop Zone but i'll give the internet community a 3 hour comment period before its final. I voted for KevBone'd

stoked to pop my hood cherry via a sweet route, swung into actual water ice through the second step. no photos of the face...

ask tyler he has climbed during that time. ice doesnt really form in the valley.

BUMP for stoke! anybody wanna post a pic of the ice on infinite bliss or mt. hamilton?

mods=NO fun, boring, and apparently rather sensitive, shit I mean this post was a joke to begin with and now you mods have f'ed it up by splitting it it up. I wonder if you lassy's do this with all the books you read? Maybe borrow a book from the library and whiteout all the stuff you find offensive? mods here is to you: