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thanks guys for the good time at the party. catherine, randy and i had a blast talking to everyone! from saturday, birthday tour: -veronika

thanks guys for the good time at the party. catherine, randy and i had a blast talking to everyone! from saturday, birthday tour: -veronika

ok, i should have said that it "wasn't as fat as a few weeks ago" when i last climbed those lines, and it "killed my stoke to see them so famished". alex, thanks for the corrections on the names.

on saturday my buddy dan and i went out to scout at alpental, but falls i-iv looked dead and rotting. it was quite warm. across the valley the ice was looking a little more blue and promising, and there was word of a few people climbing chair. around noon we saw a group of climbers (the human dots are on the right side of the image) getting off the ice fall in center-left: this also looked ok-ish: then this morning i drove by vantage and saw that fugs has been basking in the sun a bit much, and this (can't remember the name, across from sunshine wall) - was looking a little sad too: on the drive back across the pass, i swung by the upper lot at alpental and snapped a few pics. things looked a little more promising than on saturday: then again, i think they got a little bit of snow, and the dusting simply filled the visible holes in the ice. if it gets colder, maybe the stuff will look a bit more solid, but for now nothing to get too stoked on.

i second that. pretty sticky, nice. not sure what this route is, it's on the left of the alpental falls group. the bottom set of pillars was a little brown, but was actually easy to protect. the top was a little styrofoamy, also enjoyable. ...this is very sad - i can't seem to embed the photo. but it's uploaded into my profile.