layton Posted January 17, 2005 Posted January 17, 2005 Climb: North Cascades Hwy Roadside-John Pierce Falls Date of Climb: 1/16/2005 Trip Report: Marcus Donaldson and I made the pilgramage up to HWY 20 to go lookin fer ice. Unfortunately we only had one day, so we had to miss the good times in Hope. It was warm and raing and not much climbable ice until past Colonial Pk which we couldn't see so don't ask if it's in. John Pierce falls goes at one short pitch of WI2 and one 61 meter pitch of WI4. It was a vertical slurpee in the light rain and fog and both of us got eye fulls of water after some swings. screws were mainly useless. Good times rapping off (never saw any tat on the trees?) as the route 1st let loose a major slide. not the gently hiss of a colorado powerder dump, but a rumble and a sizeable slide roarer right over our packs. As we grabbed the packs after rapping and high-tailed it to the car a point slide released a fireworks display of a slide down the climb again. Then the snowplow cleared the road above us on the bridge we were under once again dumping a massive amount of snow onto the drainage. Luckily our car wasn't burried and we weren't hit. the overall quality was ok, but i wouldn't bother with it unless it's the only thing you can think of doing. i don't think it'll last much longer. Gear Notes: 8 screws and slings avy snorkel Approach Notes: walk several feet to the climb Quote
Steddy Posted January 17, 2005 Posted January 17, 2005 some good fun stretching that pitch, mike? hope? hope for some cold temps, of course - freeeeeezing levels above 6000' for the rest o' the week! the purple equals flood warning..... (didn't have a good graphic for fraser valley) Quote
Steddy Posted January 17, 2005 Posted January 17, 2005 make that the GREEN for flood watch, rather!!! Quote
glassgowkiss Posted January 17, 2005 Posted January 17, 2005 why in the hell didn't you drive to hope? Quote
Dru Posted January 17, 2005 Posted January 17, 2005 he was probably hung over and picking bits of wool off of his pubes after distel's party Quote
layton Posted January 17, 2005 Author Posted January 17, 2005 cuz we only had one day and took a chance that it was cold enough for my super secrety projects to form. whatever, we had a fun time...it would've been nice to climb more than 2 pitches though. Quote
glassgowkiss Posted January 17, 2005 Posted January 17, 2005 he was probably hung over and picking bits of wool off of his pubes after distel's party Quote
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