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especially since the website shows the overnight temps have been around -15c all week, and never above 0. still gonna try and get up there for sun, mon.

Was planning a 3 day ... oh well, Lillooet will have perfect weather to climb and nobody there we're going to see what everything looks like tomorrow, and maybe go up for sunday, monday.

aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! does anyone know if there is anything in and worth doing on saturday that is south of the closings? whistler or pemberton on the 99 side, or hope or yale on the 1 side? I'm assuming that with good weather forecast for saturday, sunday and monday, that the roads ought to open up by saturday afternoon .. sound reasonable?

.. just followed your link, guess bridge river is closed for now. Oh well, we'll be there through monday, so saturday maybe we'll just tool around on the in town stuff or marble. ******************************************************* LOCATION: Road 40 - Lillooet to Goldbridge INCIDENT: High avalanche hazard. STATUS: Closed TIME OF CLOSURE: 0558 hrs January 30th, 2004. TIME OF OPENING: Unknown. UPDATE TO FOLLOW: Yes.

aarghhh!!! Where does 99 get closed? are these the gates on the hwy going north from pemberton? Does 99 South close coming out of lillooet? Is the synchro area still accessable? Bridge river should still be open right ? will you be there this weekend?

news in winter ... hmmm. The standard descent off of news involves three full length raps down a tight slot, then a loose gully, then the free hanging rap off a giant boulder. Does anyone know if this descent route has been done as a winter ice/mixed climb? It looks like it would be really sweet if it ices up.

When's it gonna be on tv?

maybe, but I think it is smith in the winter. Here's that pitch in the summer:

says yes and yes

but is it in lillooet area or WA? WA has ice ?? .. it's in banff

more east coast (nh) ice

here's a super easy one

yeppers! here's a local peak (sno pass) .. name the climber for extra points.

more east coast ...

Nice Paul. btw, there is no "L" in my last name

der mighty toof

Go climbing the weather's fine. Only touched off one little avi today

3 hours is too far. It's about 1.5 to 2hrs up the canyon .. the trick is that you can't really see it from the low part of the canyon (at least we didn't). 30 - 45 min passed tres burly there is a steep open slope on the left with a big tree about half way up the hill. You have to climb out of the low part of the canyon and up this slope on the left which cuts into the cliff system. Only when you are on the top of this slope will you see the climb on your right.

The ice conditions forum here at cc is good. Check here too: http://casbc.bivouac.com/ice0304.htm For weather check here: http://www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/forecast/city_e.html?WKF When it's warm, the best place to go will be marble canyon and Oregon Jack. I don't think I'm going out on a limb here to say that Honeyman Falls won't be in.

I had the same problem with my first pair last year, check here My first pair of gloves fell apart after one weekend, my second pair have 30+ days on them and are doing fine. I did seam seal the crap out of them though. A few points. 1.These gloves are the best combo of warmth and dexterity out there. 2.Yes, they get wet easy, and stay wet a long time. I wear thicker gloves at the belay and put them in my jacket, so at least they're warm and wet for the next lead. 3.I try not to rap in them. 4.I think mine will last the rest of this season. (for a total of 2 winters) Get a new pair paul and seam seal the hell out of them.

When I was looking into buying a digital camera, I used this site. I found it very useful.

So, do they get to go?

Jay, did you notice if the log jam across the river makes the apppoach from halfway up the road (instead of the bridge) worth doing?

We left marble at around 3pm, there had been no accidents that I was aware of. There was a HUGE group of students being led by two guides, they had a about a zillion tr's up, but they were well behaved and were finished by the time we left. Hope everything turned out ok. By the way icy bc has almost doubled in size since last week. There is enough ice to lead the left side as well as the right, and before too long the chockstone in the middle should be completely covered too. Alas it was the wettest thing out there this weekend.