Necronomicon Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 If you can scream for help all day long, and no one hears you, you know you're alpine climbing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sphinx Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 If you continuously fail on alpine climbs, you might be Layton or Necro  (If you continuously fail on boulder problems you might be Dru ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Necronomicon Posted September 3, 2003 Author Share Posted September 3, 2003 I wouldn't say continuosly. That's a pretty harsh assessment. Â If you're doing FAs of low angle rotten choss heaps, you know you're alpine climbing with Dru. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bug Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 This thread desinigrated quickly. Â Â If your lichen encrusted face is starting to feel windburned, your water ran out hours ago, you have lost track of how many pitches and how far you have simo-climbed, and you meet someone from this board............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_Parker Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 you have ice axe and crampons and a 8.5 mil rope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sphinx Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 Bug said: This thread desinigrated quickly. Â Â If your lichen encrusted face is starting to feel windburned, your water ran out hours ago, you have lost track of how many pitches and how far you have simo-climbed, and you meet someone from this board............. then you're trying to get to Pube Club. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Attitude Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 Cragging has route descriptions that match features you can actually identify. Â Alpine climbing involves a lot of WTF??? navigation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa_Eagle Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 more specifically (on that note) if you're looking for the "obvious gulley", you're alpine climbing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 Alpine = "adventure" Â I rather like Necro's definition , but rephrased. Â "In Alpine, no one can hear you scream". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 there are a lot of adventure cragging routes in the more brushy parts of Squamish Chief etc..... Fern's sent most of em.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryad Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 So does this make Rainier a crag? Lots of people there to hear you scream. Oh wait, Rainier is a hike, nevermind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chucK Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 The Urioste guide (Red Rocks) describes the Frigid Aire Buttress route as having an Alpine Feel. Perhaps in his mind it means discontinuous climbing (steep parts then less steep bushy parts)? Â Is Crap Crags that huge chimney system that you walk over right at the end (right side) of the Bellygood traverse? That looks Alpine . Has Fern (or anybody reading this) done that one? Looks adventurous! Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa_Eagle Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 dryad said: So does this make Rainier a crag? Lots of people there to hear you scream. Oh wait, Rainier is a hike, nevermind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babnik Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 dryad said: So does this make Rainier a crag? Lots of people there to hear you scream. Oh wait, Rainier is a hike, nevermind. Â most o' them boys can go hit up the mowitch or something similar and call me mid route and tell me its not technical or climbing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 On Everest, all the other gapers on the summit could hear you scream.... if you only took your stupid oxygen mask off... and if that damn Toyota wasn't revving its motor.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fern Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 chucK said: Is Crap Crags that huge chimney system that you walk over right at the end (right side) of the Bellygood traverse? That looks Alpine . Has Fern (or anybody reading this) done that one? Looks adventurous! Â the top part of Crap Crags is right at the end of Bellygood and it is super loose. There are other chimney tops along the rim there too, eg Clean Corner. Â I have climbed Crap Crags and I would do it again, it has some quality monkeying. It is not very alpine though, don't you have to be above treeline for it to be 'alpine'?... it's just bushy and loose. Andy Cairns has done it too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa_Eagle Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 although isn't Alpine climbing really only done in Europe?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 Pup Buttress is not above treeline but it's pretty alpine. Ditto Index pks I bet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babnik Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 Ursa_Eagle said: although isn't Alpine climbing really only done in Europe?? Â is there such thing anymore? i think it is all via ferrata now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 Ursa_Eagle said: although isn't Alpine climbing really only done in Europe?? Â Japanese Alps.... Southern Alps in New Zealand..... Conrad Kain called the Rocky + Columbia Mts the Canadian Alps.... Â there is also a range of mountains on the Moon named the Alps. Lots of FA potential I bet. Oxygenless would be tough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murraysovereign Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 Dru said: there is also a range of mountains on the Moon named the Alps. Lots of FA potential I bet. Oxygenless would be tough. Â Yeah, but with so little gravity, you can probably dyno to the summit, then do huge leaps from peak to peak...bag the whole chain in, like, 20 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babnik Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimL Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 I think there is a big difference between mountaineering and alpine climbing but a lot of people mix them into one type of climb. It would be like mixing sport and trad climbing together in one generic rock climibng category. For instance, to me it seems most routes on Rainier are not alpine routes, they are mountaineering routes............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpt.Caveman Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 Tim I think you are confusing mountaineering with hill walkers alps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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