glassgowkiss Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 does anybody know how much is a heli ride to the base of slessee? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 Your soul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmace Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 1000$ an hour plus GST includes gas, from nearest airport and back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 Yeah but legally a heli cannot land at Slesse NE butt because of the Memorial designation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmace Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 A while back I asked Maxim about the route and he said he has taken clients to the base via helicopter a few times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 Yeah and it was just that that resulted in a pilot being fined. Good luck finding a chopper pilot that doesn't know about the legislation now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmace Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 shitty, well I geuss you have to hike that greulling road bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwrts Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 just walk bob. it ain't that far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glassgowkiss Posted August 25, 2005 Author Share Posted August 25, 2005 i already did hike it- no big deal now. i am talking winter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 its the same length of hike in winter you chuffer except the snow covers the bush and there are avalanches. and the sheep are hibernating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glassgowkiss Posted August 25, 2005 Author Share Posted August 25, 2005 i have my blow-up sheep for winter, but what are avalanches? and wtf am i supposed to do with skis? i know nelson-lewis used heli to get to the base. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 you can always snowshoe. Â avalanches are like in the picture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwrts Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 winter, okay that is excusable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skykilo Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 i know nelson-lewis used heli to get to the base. Â All the more reason to do it without the heli... FIRST HELI-FREE WINTER ASCENT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skykilo Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 But don't you know that's ski season??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 i know nelson-lewis used heli to get to the base. Â All the more reason to do it without the heli... FIRST HELI-FREE WINTER ASCENT! Â it might have been so they could get their 8 days of supplies and recreational chemicals in to the base of the route. since you'll be sending it free in a day you won't have that problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don_Serl Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 i already did hike it- no big deal now. i am talking winter. Â Jim and Kit resorted to the chopper on about their 8th winter attempt - prior goes had been on foot. I've been in there 3 times on foot in winter; once when John and Perry and I climbed the N couloir (about 7 hrs approach; a bit thru and above the basin on small snowshoes); twice for attempts on the NEB (both easy day approaches - once failed at the N face traverse 1/3 way up, the other time had to abandon a bivy and run for the valley at 3 a.m. when it started to snow hard on our bivy right at the bottom, on the initial bypass traverse - didn't want to drown in spindrift - chickenshit, actually...). several other parties have been in, on foot in winter, to try the Heart of Darkness. also Arctic Wing obviously got done au pied... Â i kinda agree with your assessment that a lot of it can be drytooled, but that applies most to the upper sections. don't underestimate the lower part of the route. Joe Buszowski took a (short) fall on the 5.8 steppy section low down, above our first (only) bivy i backed off the pitch leading to the rightwards traverse (which Joe then led), and we eventually quit when i led a long dihedral with one piece at about 15m and nothing else in the entire ropelength - and no belay to be found, despite digging at every possibility for the upper 10m or 15m of the pitch. eventually i simply had to climb back down... maybe bolts aren't such a bad idea... Â have fun, cheers, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glassgowkiss Posted September 3, 2005 Author Share Posted September 3, 2005 well, did you have worthogs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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