Crack Posted January 28, 2002 Posted January 28, 2002 after spending the last week touring through the rockies we were ready for some ugly american partyin' -where were you washingtonians? colder than shit, dale and crew made it in the family van and caddie so no excuses on road conditions...either way the small crowd was friendly, and the whole event was very low key. kudos to the moose and lyle and the dude from mec, great people...sorry about the cave again, lyle. Quote
Cpt.Caveman Posted January 28, 2002 Posted January 28, 2002 Crackhead some of us had jobs that called us in to work on the weekend. Quote
Lambone Posted January 28, 2002 Posted January 28, 2002 quote: Originally posted by Crack: after spending the last week touring through the rockies we were ready for some ugly american partyin' -where were you washingtonians? colder than shit, dale and crew made it in the family van and caddie so no excuses on road conditions...either way the small crowd was friendly, and the whole event was very low key. kudos to the moose and lyle and the dude from mec, great people...sorry about the cave again, lyle. yo, you shouldn't duk in the canuks caves, its bad form...plus where's ray supposed to sleep! Quote
vegetablebelay Posted January 29, 2002 Posted January 29, 2002 I was up at the fest this weekend. It was a good time and low key. I got to see a guy from Dru's posse climb the mixed route to the left of Icy BC on Friday. Dude was out of screws half way up and ran it out to the top Had to have been 30-40 feet of runout to the top. I had to throw away that pair of underwear I wore that day and I was just standing on the ground below. Quote
vegetablebelay Posted January 29, 2002 Posted January 29, 2002 That sounds right, but I didn't see the name in the book. It has 3 bolts on the rock, then some really thin, sketchy patches of ice before it gets thicker near the top. Quote
allthumbs Posted January 29, 2002 Posted January 29, 2002 You mean to tell me after all the Thursday hype about the big ass caravan trip to the Yukon, only one or two of you's went? That's lame man...that's really weak. Why spew the big whoop, if you ain't goin'? Quote
Lambone Posted January 29, 2002 Posted January 29, 2002 Didn't somebody take a big whipper...whats the story? Quote
vegetablebelay Posted January 29, 2002 Posted January 29, 2002 I didn't hear of any while we were there, and if you did hear of one it wasn't me Quote
Dru Posted January 29, 2002 Posted January 29, 2002 I saw no whippers. Yes Laurin the German ice god sent No Deductable (but hung on a bolt ) and deeping Wall Direct etc. but then again the dude has done Nemesis and Riptide and M8+ in the Riockies so it is nice of him to visit our local test pieces and humbly condescend to doing them I beat him at pool though Quote
Lyle_Knight Posted January 29, 2002 Posted January 29, 2002 I talked with the guy who took the whipper: Third pitch of Icy BC, 10m fall onto a screw. He went back up and finished 'er off. Good to know screws work, but better him than me... Mis-placed thanks at the start, I had nothing to do with the Fest other than provided the screen for Slawinsky's slides. Paul Malkinson co-ordinated the efforts this year. BTW: Tres Burly about 3/4 formed but still not quite there (maybe now?). Red Wall Wanderer (Copper Creek)looks like a big, fat, blue Rockies climb, go climb it (but avoid the cave - see Crack's note above). And the lime green puke about halfway up. -15C to -17C the last few nites, -10C during the day.-L Quote
fern Posted January 29, 2002 Posted January 29, 2002 quote: Originally posted by Dru: Yes Laurin the German ice god sent No Deductable he says that's probably the hardest pitch he's ever lead ... I told him it's only M2 and he's just weak Quote
Dru Posted January 29, 2002 Posted January 29, 2002 no deductable is now a 3 pitch route. Pitch one: to first bolt. pitch two: first to third bolt. pitch 3: to top Quote
Dru Posted January 29, 2002 Posted January 29, 2002 quote: Originally posted by fern: he says that's probably the hardest pitch he's ever lead ... I told him it's only M2 and he's just weak He said he knew how to play pool too. Quote
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