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The two climbs I know have been climbed in the last week are Falling Falls and the punch bowl. wish I could go.

what was the road like getting up to copper. is a high clearance vehicle necessary?

i recognize copper but are those (3rd one down) on US95 about 20 miles from the border? st. regis?

http://www.coldfear.com/conditions.htm very detailed conditions page for Cody. Aaron's great so give him a call before you go and he'll give you the latest. I can highly recommend the Bison Willy's bunkhouse if you still need a place to stay.

desperate for ice falls is my favorite so far because that's exactly what it was for us.

I'm terrible at judging distance, especially since we didn't use a rope. oh well...

yeah, not a bad find. Anyone ever see this in the past. I'm itching to name something and proclaim it mine (and Bob's)... Even if it is WI2.

If I could climb "a relatively fat freestanding dead-nuts 5+/6- vertical pillar," I'd skip school and run up there tomorrow. But I can't so I'll have to read about someone else doing it. That's why I put the post on here so one of you guys will do it and post some pics before one of those damn canadians does it.

sorry, looked at the date wrong.

you can see it from the main road if you go about 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile past bridge creek. You can see the bottom part of it through the brush. It looks a lot steeper from the road. When you start walking on the gated dirt road just after the bridge, go until it dead ends and start traversing up through the crappy thick brush. You can't really see it until you're on it. It took about 30 minutes from the car. If you go, take the time to head all the way up the drainage to see if there's anything else. I'm curious to see if we missed out on anything good.

Trip: leavenworth - no idea Date: 11/25/2007 Trip Report: Anyone ever seen or climbed this? You take off from bridgecreek campground, cross the creek, head off on that road to the right after the bridge for about 15-20 minutes and then head up through the thicket into a draw another 10-15 minutes. It's about 50m of WI2. It then rambles up for quite a ways but we turned around after about 200-300m. Judging by the map it would be about a half mile past Hubba Hubba but lower on the hillside in an obscure draw. The route was pretty fun (considering we weren't expecting to find anything). Pretty good ice actually. There is another short 20 foot step beyond what you can see in the picture. Gear Notes: brought the gear but soloed it.

I talked to paul detrick about these last year because they came in pretty good but according to him they are still off limits. There is one falls about 30 seconds off the road closest to ephrata on the palisades road (I forgot the name) which you can climb. I know one of the relatives of the guy who farms this or owns it and he claims the owner is alright with people climbing it. Hope this helps.

It's right off the road down by Indian Canyon golf course. Last year it came in for a couple days if that. really short but fun none the less. 2 or 3 years ago it came in and stayed for a couple weeks. It's easily top-roped with the big obvious tree about 25 feet above it.

awesome! I've always wanted to do that route. Nice work

ahh, I've lead a sheltered life apparently. I have honestly never heard that before. This forum has taught me so much, thank you trogdor.

I think he was talking about the avalanche danger being so high that day, and our lack of concern towards it. skull

how was that climb you guys were on? was it about the same thickness as sody pop? I banged the crap out of my ergos on the upper part of that climb. kinda thin in some places.

nope. I got an ear full. but it was sooo worth it.

that was a fun climb, wish it was longer. I did leave that grey webbing. we were in a hurry to get back because I told my wife I'd be back in spokane by 1:00. I think we left the base of the climb at 1. I was supposed to help with the mother-in-law dinner.

I was the one with "tazman" that had just climbed that one north of bavarian dark (in the white VW). Believe it's called sody pop. short 40' or so 4. Fun little climb. I wanted to TR bavarian dark but we ran out of time, would've been a great mixed route. We also did the 1st pitch of clockwork orange.

beer climbs are good too. bavarian dark isn't touching but it would be a great mixed route right now.

great pictures, that bluish tint is awesome!

probably well on it's way to reforming by then, but not "in" just a guess. I'm headed north to brave the cold.

i think you did. was it bob?

local 2052, nice to meet you