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cool. "one of these days"... I am going to draw a topo and post it on the wastateice site.

nice. that rambles right is even fatter than when we were there 2 weeks ago. and is much better than rambles center, which is way lower angle and shorter than I remembered it somehow. here are some more pics from the same weekend Saturday pre-dawn hours looking for this non-existant log. Rafael leading fat Carl's Berg And on Deeping Wall

It was +6 in town, above freezing at Rambles and above freezing at Marble.

The log is gone. Bring waders or someone break a trail on the opposite side. The crust sucks

"Confirmed" today that the log is well and truly gone

Clean aid at index might be wetter, but will not be colder than aiding at Vantage this time of year.

Moreover, its a video contest...

Do you sell your art?

I've updated the wastateice.net/Conditions.aspx page with this and other info, thx!

This is the bro deal of the year, man!

I went up Alpental way to do some skiing today, and MAN they've gotten alot of snow in the last few days. Everything is hip deep, which makes for stellar skiing but poor ice climbing. Chairlift Falls is not really climbable, though it's there. Two anemic looking columns of ice comprise it right now, so I would wait for the warm up early next week to see it get fatter Alpental 1-4 buried.

yes

I have a Moonstone -30 Goretex bag I'd be willing to let go.

wow amazing how dry fugs is in that pic!

Hey Monkey, got pics of the secret stash?

It's "Not Quite a Plum" and was climbed a few times last weekend as well. From the top tree (on the right) you can actually climb another pitch that is pretty fun continuing on mellow terrain above. Kiddie Cliff is further down the valley along the winter trail, just before the winter trail enters the upper valley to Source Lake by a small cliff band.

I think that in a regular year (more snow early..) that would be buried. Good job on getting after it, I doubt it ever gets climbed..

Sweet. The fact that there is even ice forming the the groud up there is a positive sign for January!

send me teh details when you get back yo

I did just now. It's nothing you probably don't already know from reading this thread...early in the season yet but for WA we are already getting out and climbing, that's pretty good! I am psyched to see Lillooet SO fat SO early, I remember years when going up there on the 15th of Dec meant scratching out at Marble for 2 days. A little bird told me Drury was in.

" It was very fun 2-3 pitch WI4 with a really fun "chockstone" that you have to go behind. " It's called Chockstone in the guidebook. I am updating the conditions page tonight. Rap Wall is dry. There have already been some posts on Lillooet

There's a lot of T&A in that pic, just not the ones I wanted to see.

Nice trip, definitely a good sampler. Murchison would have been numbingly cold on a day where it was -22 in the valley. I'm surprised by the amount of snow and the fatness of the routes already this year. The fine is definitely in the thousands. You have to park before the first stream crossing: basically, your tires cannot get wet. It really only adds maybe 30 min of walking to get into This House of Sky, though.

In 1994 a buddy and I were talking about it, but we never went out to check it out personally.