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Our hockey team just won gold mofo's... yeah we are definitly the mother of all hockey countries.... even the ultra-superpower Americans couldnt beat us!

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And walk down the skinny train tunnel hoping no train comes down the tracks and flattens you.

Big Fat ice with Big fat Avy Hazard.... there was over a foot of snow in Agassiz last night.

you peed in a flaring crack

All this snow may make the 'beginner' climbs super shitty as its setled on pretty much anything low angled (grade 3 and easier) in the valley and near Vancouver. Lillooet was pretty dry though and the Rambles may be a good option.

All the snowed up rock routes are GREAT places to scare them silly!

you probably had to take that wire ladder to get around the plunge pool? saw no evidence of the wire ladder, though i'd read of it in the guide - we used the infinitely more ghetto rope'o'twine tied off to the shitty bush (tvash even added some knots to make it more user-friendly) - where is that ladder? I used that rope too, but I don't remember seeing a ladder either. I do remember as I neared the falls I had to chimmney up between a couple giant boulders in the drainage that were pretty much impassible without doing so...

Sounds like 'Sailor Bar Gulley' I think its like grade 2+.. mellow but fun. no way it was 2 - tall, vertical icefalls - 3 tiers i think - off the canuckistani 1 (maybe a 2 minute approach, but nowhere to park - big sign just before it saying no parking due to avi danger) - maybe 30 km's east of hope? huh, no idea then...

Sounds like 'Sailor Bar Gulley' I think its like grade 2+.. mellow but fun.

Slesse in technically in Canada but is still one of the coolest peaks in the Cascades. Check it out....

Thanks for the update.. How is Icy B.C upper two teirs? Could you see them?

Thats what she said

Nice... do you mean 'Cruel Pools' by any chance????

Fantastic Pics!

the ghey thing about FB is those homo loser snitches that watch what you put up on FB and look to see what parties you were at... who you hang out with and so on and then rat you out (only really applies to people my own age)

We have better mountains up here..

emlock was fun last year with the shit loads of snow we had... usually its like skiing water ice......

Some climbs with running water sound decent though.. like Icy B.C, Oregon Jack, the Deeping Wall.... just check: westcoastice.com

Nope....

Trip: Near Hope - F.A - Family Man , 150m WI2+ Date: 12/26/2008 Trip Report: So MikeW and I were going to climb Hell's Lake Falls or something up the Fraser Canyon but just past the gas line crossing the fraser while heading east towards Hope we spotted a line running up a corner/gully on the cliff left of the road. We parked and geared up at a small pullout 100m east of the route and walked over to the base. I took the first lead which climbed low angle thin ice to the right of the prominent right-facing corner. Where the angle decreased and the ice became thinner I moved left to the corner where I scrambled up low angle mixed rock and ice to a blob of ice decent enough for a belay. (50m WI2 M0) Mike climbed a few meters of low angle ice past the belay to a snow terrace then a few more meters of low angle ice to a tree below the main gulley. This could probably just be soloed or some simul climbing could be done to combine pitches 1 and 2. (25m Wi2-) Mike took off on lead again as the last section had been short and easy. He climbed up the gulley on more low angle ice towards a prominent rock buttress where we took the left hand branch (the right hand branch looked like more low angle ice). This narrow gulley to left of the rock buttress had the most enjoyable climbing of the route, climbing up several short, steep bulges then staying to the right to avoid some bushes. Mike then belayed below the most prominent bulge as he ran out of rope. (50m WI2+) I took the last lead up the final steep bulge, then up more low angle ice moving right into an easy rock dihedral(to avoid bushes)leading to the forest above. (25m WI2+ M0) I saw some more ice in the woods above so we hiked up to the base of it. There were many options on this flow ranging from about WI2+ to WI4+. I wanted to climb a fine looking pillar but Mike had to be back in Hope with his family for the evening so we headed down, hence the name of our climb. All lines on this wall remain unclimbed. We rapped the route off V-Threads and Trees in 4 raps. Stupid me did all this in my thin lead gloves and my fingers froze until they were too weak to shove back into my toasty belay gloves. In fact I'm having trouble typing this report as my fingers are still thawing out I will post pics when Mike sends them to me... or Mike will just post them himself. Gear Notes: A few Stubbies, some med - long screws, rap tat... 50m or 60m ropes... Approach Notes: The climb is located between the gas line crossing the Fraser and Hell's Lake off Highway 7 near Hope. Look for a large prominent corner system on the cliffs above the road (where there are no nets covering the cliff) The climb follows this system staying left of the rock rib near the top.

Me and Mike were actually putting up a new route past Frost Heave.... whoever was on Tailwind still were not back at their vehicle yet when I drove by 15 mins ago...

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