Cpt.Caveman Posted January 31, 2003 Posted January 31, 2003 Has anyone been up to Gib wall recenily. Is it too warm there? I have not known any of my friends to go there this season. Here is a weather forecast for Cranbrook. My guess would be that it will be in. http://www2.mybc.com/weather/city.cfm?city=Cranbrook If you feel really gung ho you can always check out Ex[ert's Choice too. Quote
erik Posted January 31, 2003 Posted January 31, 2003 Has anyone been up to Gib wall recenily. Is it too warm there? we climbed it in the beginning of the month and it thing compared to pics i had seen, but there was about 3 lines formed nicely. Quote
snoboy Posted January 31, 2003 Posted January 31, 2003 More guesses here: It has been wet this week in the Kootenays, and warm. It rained to at least 5500' last night, but the trend looks like cooling, especially by Sun evening. There is lots of water around to freeze up... Quote
jja Posted February 3, 2003 Posted February 3, 2003 Lillooet update: We were a little bit worried when the rain started around Vancouver and continued through Pemberton on friday night, but it tapered off by the time we were on the duffy lake road. It turned out to be a fairly good weekend. Rambles - both left and right lines are sort of in. The top of the second pitch on the left has no ice. On the right there's plenty of ice on the first two pitches. The gully leading up to the upper ice has no snow and only patches of ice in it. The upper ice itself was leadable (by me that is) in only one spot. Plenty of fun though on all the other thin ice / rock bits on tr here. As we were rapping off met up with a party of 7 (yes seven) from bellingham. Nice guys, but an awful lot of them. Synchronicity - whole sections of it are missing. Carl's berg - had ice, looked thin, but I'm sure there are plenty that could do it. Marble - waite for spring area on the left has lot's of different lines, none of them very fat. the gang of 7 pretty much owned this area. The deeping wall/farmed ice (how do you distinguish the routes if it's all one wall of ice?) has plenty of ice and plenty of lines, some hacked up with hooks all the way up, some with overhangs onto curtains, some real thin weeps. Icy bc first pitch has two lines, the left is thinner and steeper, the right is rampier and thicker. the second pitch has ice but water is flowing/splashing pretty hard all over it. the third pitch is reported in, and looks in from the road but we didn't go up there. by the way, if anybody goes to the mile-o, check out the ice climber log. There's some _very_ interesting, albeit anonymous comments in there about one of cc.com's more prolific posters - something about climbing his mama. thanks to ryland for a fun weekend, -john Quote
ryland_moore Posted February 3, 2003 Posted February 3, 2003 Excellent weekend. ANd if you go into it thinking you will be wet, then you will be pleasantly surprised. Early mornings were really nice and drips at Rambles and Marble didn't really start flowing until mid afternoon. I never got wet the entire time Except for the upper pillar at the right hand ramble at 3pm and it was the end of the day anyways. Yes, at Mile-O the infamous Trask is mentioned in the logbook. It stated something like this: Name: Trask Climbed: His Momma Comments: If you can't lead 5's go to Vantage? It was signed on Jan. 12th, 2003. Trask, why are you talking bad about yourself? All in all, a great weekend, with slightly colder temps than expected, blue skies, and good company. As for the group from Western WA, they meant well and we were all newbies once. Yes, they knocked down a lot of ice, but it is to be expected for their first time out. And what better place to do it then the left side of Marble. Better there than some nice multi-pitch you've had your eye on for a while! Highlight was watching Alan Kearney lead up Weeping Wall and making it look super easy. Quote
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