skyclimb Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 snowboarding = Climbing = Alpine climbing = Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa_Eagle Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 Tex, try caving! Â Now there's a good suggestion! If you (or anyone else) want to go during the week, drop me a line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mtguide Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 (edited) Aid climbing at Broughton's,Madrone(sneak in),Beacon,Carver,Rocky Butte,ice at Pete's Pile,cliffs below Mirror Mountain(to right of Skibowl-serious stuff,too)drytooling in the gorge(great practice)more ice on Illumination rock,Steel Cliffs,& the Black Spider(also serious) on Hood.(Played out?-I don't think so)Further south are Wolf Rock ,Santiam Pinnacle;out by Oregon City there's a little area called Waterboard Park.Or head up to Snoqualmie for N.Face of Chair Peak. Tons of stuff to do.Check out Portland Rock climbs;Izzat OK for a start?PM me.Lots more where that came from. Edited January 15, 2004 by Mtguide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
layton Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 anyone have photos of routes like the sisters ice, stawberry whatever, random "alpine" climbs, I-rock, black spider, all dat shit you mentioned, etc...? Â photos help one get off one's ass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurthicks Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 i was trying for that a few weeks ago in the Oregon Ice thread. not a lot came in. i've got some more trolling e-mails out at the moment for more beta and climbs. perhaps wayne1112 could help us out with the I-Rock stuff. Vert's got stuff from the Strawberries, Terminal Gravity must have stuff from the Wallowas, and i bet skyclimb's got some of Da Ice Hose from last year. anyways, here's one of some ice (a few pitches, i'd guess) on the NE side of N. Sister in December (it's a photo of a photo, no scanner), there was visible ice from 5 miles away on Middle too... oh,and the ladies in pink. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gapertimmy Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 sweet pics. i'm goin to strawberry next week, who's in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
layton Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 thank fer da photos of da sista. what's the deal w/strawberries? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj001f Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 thank fer da photos of da sista. what's the deal w/strawberries? Ask Queeg or John Day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurthicks Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 timmy, what you going to the strawberries for? when? take photos of any ice you see, man. i can probably swing some time away, but i bet that's a long drive from Pullman. pm me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terminal_Gravity Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 There is plenty of ice here. some easy to get to & some not. Some fat and solid; and some as bit more tenous. WI1+ to WI6 maybe. I've been ice climbing 1 or 2 times a week for the past month but I can't garuntee the weather. We occasionally get a few days of really warm winds that screw every thing up. Right now I would say it is a 7 on a scale of 1-10 for Wallwa Ice. Â I have never posted a photo & don't really know how but I do have a few marginal one's I could post if somebody really cares. Â At most I could climb 1 day this weekend, so if a couple people meet out here I could point you in the right direction and maybe could rope up on a climb or two. but you can't count on me for a partner all weekend long. Â Â ....and this is about all the time I have to write about it. If you PM me include your phone# or I may not respond...sorry I'm just pretty busy today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 middle sister in spring. The east arete is fairly iced-up in winter. As is the couloir next to it. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 again, late spring Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyclimb Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 those are some great shots. Especially the first, to show the ne couloir, and the east face in one shot is impressive. I have always been intrigued by the elegance of the east face of middle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrashador Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 i'm goin to strawberry next week, who's in? Â Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gapertimmy Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 (edited) 8=========D  d00d! so pretty, need to ski   Not the greatest pic (it was smokey, too much muir hut), but this is the slide lakes basin, the upper basin is an almost perfect horseshoe of plab potential.  When we were camped out there (sometime after chinook came back with toilet paper hanging from his mouth), there was a herd of elk perched at the top of the rim lookin down at us... it was neat. Edited January 15, 2004 by gapertimmy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaper_Jeffy Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 Iain, who took the 2nd photo you posted of Middle Sis? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 a friend of mine in corvallis mtn rescue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linebacker Posted January 22, 2004 Share Posted January 22, 2004 Tex-man, Â The cave over at my place is open and getting an expansion soon. It also does not require a ski approach. Not exactly ice climbing, but better than surfing the net! Â lb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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