Andy Craig

This isn't a "climbing setup" but it's a ski setup. Marker duke, quiver killer inserts, Bluehouse "shoots" skis with minimal use (a couple seasons), good bases/edges. The skis and bindings are heavy, so this is not an "alpine" setup, but it's a powder/slack country setup.. I would keep but I'm downsizing my gear and I am skiing only tele. Here is the ad/pictures. Price is somewhat negotiable as I would like to sell before I hit the road again (leaving Bellingham area probably Tuesday, Jan 21). http://bellingham.craigslist.org/spo/4290254675.html PH: 360 670 6889

Holy crap, that glacier is taking a beating. Even with our large snowpack this year. Haven't seen it in a couple years and it's looking like it's falling apart. Best thing to do is climb everything now I guess cause it's all going to melt!

Looks like a sweet climb! I'll trade you that nice granite flake for some of this gneiss choss over here?

Glad to see you're fixed up and going after it again! Although, that hernia belt was such a style factor it probably would help you climb a whole grade higher cause it looks so good on you.

Saw you guys on your way down from Sehale arm that night, I was definitely jealous of those turns you guys are getting in late July! I will sift through my partner's camera and see if there are any shots of you guys going down. Looked like a great trip, we did about the same but a different order. Louie-- I have yet to officially meet you, but I know of you through Henry and Kurt, good to see you're going after it since this spring/summer is amazing for skiing so far!!

I would usually give it a good solid day of no rain to go out and play on it. There are a couple routes that tend to be more dry then others. If it has been several days of heavy rain and water table is high the rock will be seeping for a good couple days afterwards as well. So short answer -- depends on how much rain there was.

Was randomly on CC and saw this post -- I'm guessing this is Jeremy, good to see ya on here. I should post more TR's and give back to the community for all the beta I gather from this site... Anyways, should try to find two crappy old canoes and leave one on each side of the lake a top the dam, might make for an entertaining approach

Thanks for the TR. About to head that way my next days off from the Stehekin (south side) of cascade pass. Enough snow I almost want to lug my skis the 24 miles just to cross that glacier and ski onto horseshoe basin. Could you tell if the 'shrund onto the N. Face couloir is crossable?

This is taken on Dec, 29th of White Slab over on Snow Creek.. so if anyone wants to know conditions of that here is a photo from across the creek.

yeah would not recommend hubbahuba at the moment. I climbed it on Tue (Dec 28) and ended up mixed/super thin ice at the top. Also, update on Millenium wall conditions aren't too bad, if you're looking for ice should be even better now since we climbed it on wed (Dec 29). okay ice towards bottom, tons of snow above it 'til the tree. Just like Hubbahubba it thins out towards the top.

Lost a left BD contact strap-on crampon yesterday (Jan. 3rd) if anyone is going up and finds it please let me know.. Thanks!

busy day as in a lot of climbers or people on the slopes?

Down south in Bellingham we have had some relatively warm spells, so I was guessing the same would be going on farther north (warm spell then freezing) however you're right it has been really dry.

I know where I'm going.. I heard it was raining up there today though? can anyone verify?

Trip: Duffy Lake area, near Lillooet B.C. - rambles right & rambles center Date: 12/29/2009 Trip Report: Trip: Duffey Lake area, near Lillooet B.C. - rambles right & rambles center Date: 12/29/2009 Trip Report: Dec. 29th 2009: 2nd day of trip decided to head to Duffey (sp?) Lake area and do some easy multi-pitch for the new climbers we brought. ---------------- Rambles right -------------- Rambles right seemed like a perfect area for nice intro to multi-pitch ice. However, we were wrong. The first pitch is so thin none of us (Kapper, Adam, me) wanted to lead. We saw some boot tracks to the right and followed those. It leads all the way around first pitch to an easy 4th class scramble and eventually out to the base of upper tier of rambles right. The other guys might have some pictures of rambles right but can't remember, might have been too busy enjoying the day and drinking hot cocoa. Upper tier looked a bit too hard for our beginners we brought so ended up double rope TR the first section (the one none of us wanted to lead). Here are the pics: First section of Rambles Right. As you can see fairly thin and hard to protect if leading.. TR -- made for fun delicate climbing.. Kapper being Kapper, no need to wonder why this guy is red flagged at border! He just looks like trouble. --------------- Rambles Center ---------------- After some TR which turned out to be too hard for the new climbers we brought headed back to rambles center.. Which was GREAT! Super sticky and easy to protect. Great ice right now. Leading first pitch Rambles center.. couldn't have asked for better So enjoyable we ended up staying after dark to do some headlamp climbing! Gear Notes: Rambles center lead only about 3 or 4 screws needed Approach Notes: About 45 min approach. A lot of scrambling but well worth if for rambles center. Can be slippery but did not need to crampon up, snow was just dry.

Trip: hwy 40, lilloeet B.C. - Honeyman Date: 12/30/2009 Trip Report: Dec. 30th 2009: Our travel day back but wanted to hit Honeyman for 4 hours or so on our way out. Needless to say it was decent enough we ended up staying past dark which made for a LONG drive home! well worth it. Was another party already on it when we got there so decided to stay right of them and set two ropes and get some laps in. staying to the right enough to avoid ice debris Kapper on lead Nice lead Kap! Found some more thin ice to have some fun on. Approach Notes: Frozen creek at bottom still showing some patches of thin ice, so just be weary of that. Otherwise easy approach.

Trip: Marble Canyon, Lillooet area B.C. - Icy BC Date: 12/28/2009 Trip Report: Dec. 28th 2009: Left Bellingham around 4:30 am due to possible problems at border (one of the climbers is red flagged!!). However, we made it smoothly across with enough time to get to Marble Canyon area around 10:00am and get some climbing in. Brought two first time climbers so we just set up a TR on Icy BC. Here is Adam leading Icy BC to set up the TR. It was a bit wet but otherwise conditions fairy decent. Adam having some fun around the cave. Best time to get crazy w/ it is on TR! So surrounding area is a bit wet, definitely recommend some rope bags or something to help manage rope if plan on running laps. So like most climbers our anxiety to climb got the best of us, didn't get a picture of the surrounding area til it was dark and we thought of it on our way out (not even worth posting cause bad quality). Many apologies! Other than that, decent conditions for Icy BC. Gear Notes: Typical ice gear. Approach Notes: Easy walk across frozen lake.

I wouldn't be surprised if some of those are FA's, even in the last couple years the glacier has reseeded so much. In fact, the "ice cave" up there is not so much looking like a cave but more of a large exposed piece of the rock.. I'm torn -- I want the snow for maybe some AT Skiing up, but don't want the snow because it makes the road accessible. It's definitely going to be in a strange state this next week or so.

Awesome post! Pretty sure we met you guys 'cause we were the other fools up there freezing butt and having fun! It had to have been you guys since no one else was up there. Now that I see your post I'm jealous we didn't end up getting on some water ice. We couldn't resist since we found some super solid overhanging glacier ice When ya heading up again? It's just now snowing so probably going to be a longer approach up the road.