YocumRidge

A few here: The Thrill is Gone was really really gone: Elevator Shaft: Decapitating Bingo World : The Dribbles:

Thanks John! Highly appreciated. Yep, we got a little banged up on Reid and the idea was to escape the shooting scene by taking the middle exit rather then lingering in the rime towers in that never ending search of climbable ice . Oh, I have a Verizon smartphone with Verizon contract. It looks like the analog might be "VZ Navigator" app. Definitely worth it for me, my Go-to GPS watch does not even have downloadable maps.

Nice work guys! I love this mountain. It seems like it has been taken from the Land of Mordor. Anyone knows if there is a similar application for Verizon phones?

The "burn-out" was from the shovelling efforts of locals but made my rig to helplessly sink even more. But then again, according to John Freih, one can drive a golf cart up the main fork! Would certainly try that next time, Golf cart my ass ! No TR, Paul. Just a cragging trip, and with no epics - and as such, too boring, right ?

I hear you, man. What a bummer, especially when it happens in the middle of freaking nowhere.

I am now parking at the illegal pull-out at Beacon unless Ivan graciously gives me a ride in his red devil

Thanks Paul, we are fine, it just kind of caught us by surprise!

And here is where you are wrong Ivan! Not the girl, but rather her kalifornikan friend with supernatural affinity to the hidden ditches in Montucky! I was the passenger this time.

Awwh, thanks guys! :kisss: Feeling better now. And coming back to the reality, after getting my car extracted from the Hyalite.

Trivial Pinnacle wall (by the tree #7): 5.8 to 5.10b, 3 sets of bolted anchors from which you rap down to the base of the wall. No bolts, but all routes take good gear. See PRC 3rd edition. In between Trivial Pinnacle and Silver Bullet Bluff. 5.11b? (Bill? it is not listed in the PRC) with the prominent roof - good for figure 4-ing. One wobbly rusted bolt on top, we rap off the tree. And then there is this, between Silver Bullet and Video Bluff: John F and Bryan S might have established a couple more routes, but I am not sure about their precise location.

Or we might all carry Ivan. BTW, he was cheating on you

I would just simply die with no struggle on my way to that base camp, Paul.

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Nah, not interested Ivan. But as you know, I like to rough it

This looks like Pup on the mountain after we emerged on WCR after topping out at the 14b. He graciously did carry two packs - his and mine - while heading down to the HB (and not being in a hurry) and waiting for me there to get up to the summit ridge and check on the condition of the scary Eliot HW. And yes, for some time while on WCR we did move slow because of the horrible snow balling on our crampons and the need to stop at every other step and kick it off. It improved significantly higher up..

Good times Bala! At one point I thought summer came a little too early - in January - with Hoodie being so bare and looking like a radioactive mutant

They say 12/21/12. So the J-burg needs to happen. Soon?

Nice TR, Steopich! Sorry to hear about the crampon, glad you made it down OK. Here is the pic I took of you guys at the base of the shrund on Reid: Reid HW was unusually aggressive yesterday. After a bucket sized rime projectile flew down the line you went up and almost crippled my leg, we traversed to the right into some couloir between 14a and 14b. A good option with 60 deg ice leading to the traverse at the 14b exit. Pup on the mountain coming up the couloir: I agree with you re: the final traverse. The rime towers above it were shedding the material mercilessly and half crippled my sunglasses, what a bitch! Thank God the eye is OK. Oh, BTW, I was looking for some vodovka in that tent of yours but to no avail

Keep crying your crocodile tears, assclown. Yeah, but I did not mean to start on this path

" I am voting for the communists and for the unaffiliated"

I like black cats and fluorescent rats, Pat!

Is Pat into liking little boys? My bad...

Could not resist...

Yocum Ridge. Bill, are we on?

Good to know there are no crevasses on the Newton Clark. I have not done the circumnavigation so I would not know . Why however would you need to go around the Spur and drop down to the Eliot if you are heading up the left gully on the NF? The traverse from the Tie-in rock is very straightforward. I do see the need to go around and down the Spur if one is to climb the right gully or Sunshine/Coe's for that matter.