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When they show products at this show, how long until they are release to the public?

Did you guys look at Abiel as you drove by?

The classic splits/butt shot. A little alpine ice. The clouds David alluded to earlier. The snow is in great conditions right now. So get up there while you can.

Are you practicing for next weekend Sobo?

Been in the 40s during the days for a while. I rock climbed at vantage last weekend and the ice was just a pile at the bottom of the waterfall.

I can't believe I was skiing there last weekend and its all gone! holy shit. hopefully my friend will still have a job!

Yeah, it was 53 last night at 230 am in yakima. My morning: I-82 closed due to high winds, power went out at my house, hwy 10 closed due to flooding. Talk about bad luck. wanna go rock climbing paul?

well its suppose to cool back down by thursday night...never hurt to hope!

John, you alive?

So any word on ice in eastern washington? Forecast through the weekend looks great.

Trogdor, did you actually climb the right side? When I climbed it tuesday there was no ice for the last 2-3 feet, making the top out near impossible. Just for conditions update, went to umptanum tonight. The falls is completely iced over and looks climbable if lowered in (I was by myself and didn't wade through the pool). i climbed the drip though and it was pretty vertical, only a 2-3 foot wide pillar right now.

Climbed the three flows in the rainbow area. The right most had a non-existent top out (so i thought) and some good holes were developing on it and around. Still fun day out.

I start school on the 6th and will loose most of my climbing time once that happens so I want to squeeze in as much climbing as possible between now and then. I'm in Ellensburg and have all the gear needed. I'd rather climb in eastern washington or canada or bozeman or wyoming. Send me a pm and we can talk more. -Kevin

Also go to second ascent and look at their used gear.

Me, Sobo and Justin (summerprophet) joined the masses and climbed Fugs yesterday. It was very fat and wet. We tried climbed to climb the driest sections, which dictated the directions of our route. Finished off the left up the narrow sections, very fun. By the afternoon water was running down all of the ice. Frenchman falls had two big holes develop in the afternoon that weren't there in the morning. These climbs will probably need another cold snap before they safe and climbable again. In my opinion. Paul Detrick or anyone else, Any news on Banks Lake area? Thanks.

Who wants to climb in eastern washington on sunday? I'll be in ellensburg and need a partner. Leavenworth, vantage, etc

i heard everything in the east fell down...

Scott, I will be back in ellensburg on monday. And will be free to climb anyday between then and 1/5.

if/when you find out anything, will you please post it here.

does that mean it needs to be renamed?

yo yo yo. me and selkirk just got back from some sweet western washington ice climbing. perfect sticks, clear skis and packed snow on approach! NOT. pretty much the opposite. After excavating selkirk's subaru from the snow, we got hiking to franklin falls. us and another party of 3 decided the sketcy ice crossing and the abudance of water flowing would not make fun ice climbing. We then decided to go check out Keekwulee falls. Shortly after crossing the creek the snowshoe packed trail stoped. So I started breaking trail through waist deep (and deeper) snow. Here is Josh enjoying the wallowing! Finally we got a glimpse of the ice! All looked good until the saw the bottom 2/3 was in direct spray zone of the ice cold water. Not very appetizing. Well that was our day, besides the BLIZZARD OF 2008 we encountered on the way home. Just another day of (western) washington ice climbing. Hey Craig, I hope the entiat ice sucked and you got caught for trespassing.

i saw what looked like 8 people or so around the ice above the drytool area. busy area today!

Ask and you shall receive...left work yesterday afternoon and drove out to vantage. little or no snow on old vantage hwy. Frenchman Falls looks like its coming in pretty good. The ice on either sides seem to be forming up as well. Fugs is definitely climbable. I actually walked here and climbed sections, topped out and finished the loop back to my car. Ice is thin and steeper in places, more so than it would be in normal months as you can imagine, but still fun. Running gear death wall looked dry, however I only looked from my car. i have more pictures if people want to see'em, i was having trouble uploading them.