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Any pics of the route or the Ice cliff glacier?

Nice TR and pics. Does anyone here know when the Teanaway road/ southern access to stuart is usually closed? Thinking of driving out there in a few weeks and the ranger stations are all shut down....

File the back of the pick down close to the bolt hole. It will be pretty close, but will have a little metal left to close it off. Takes a little time, but if you go slow you can get a good flush fit. You might have to slightly bevel the contact side of the pick to match the machining of the hammer to get it to seat flat. Go slow and check it frequently as you get close to where you want it. They are machined to flush mount once the pick is filed right. I heard the new ones are machined to fit the pick without having to do this.

That spotlight exposure on fishhook turned out nice. I'll have more vacation by Late Dec/ early Jan. We'll definitely do an ice trip somewhere then.

Anyone have any more info from this past weekend?

Any new update on the road?

There seems to be a huge difference. Read the specs on the boxes side by side. Anyway, check out this video. I've been going back and forth between the two and think i'm going to pick up a Hero2 tomorrow. Seems to handle light changes quicker and work better in low light. 11MP camera compared to 5 if your doing still shots.

I did that 11 years ago up there. Spent the worst night of my life in a snow hole, ill prepared for it, and came to with the whole-body-barfies in the morning about when the sun tried to thaw me out. Was so cold and cramped from shivering all night, I couldn't swallow down any of my ice chunky water. Now I always cary a space blanket, extra wool top and bottoms, and goretex overmits now. Doesn't take up much space in the pack.

Orange food coloring would be better. Then he could still eat it.

I bet that suit would be warm though.... and you could eat marshmallows until you ran out.

Nitro worked in the movie.... I second the helmet cam too. You can ask GoPro to market the steel plated armored version with the extra sticky 3M head mounting device. Get 'em to be your sponsor and get it all on tape.... so the rangers can rescue the camera. Watch out sneaky crevasse .... Here comes the Prince. BOOM!!!!