Alpine Climbing

[pink]

[TimL]

Alpine rock, alpine ice, high altitude alpine climbing, alpine style, alpine mixed, alpine sport.......alpine cider, alpine huts, alpine touring, alpine hairlines....

 

dude, alpine is in your head. Alpine means differnt to differnt people. Whats alpine to Steve House is a nightmare to me.....whats alpine to me is a cream puff to others.

 

a rope, a rack, a willing partner and a route in the mountains. Thats alpine to me.

 

BTW - I think most routes if not all routes, in the Bugs are alpine rock routes. Big and commiting doesn't mean alpine at all. You can have easy alpine, hard alpine...whatever. I would't consider El Cap to be alpine.

 

 

Edited March 10, 2008 by TimL

[pink]

who said it was?

[minx]

where does the tree line end? does it vary?

 

Everything you ever wanted to know and then some:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_line

 

 

pink, i thought of you when i saw this pic. can you figure out where the treeline is? if so, maybe some day you can climb alpine routes.

[Buckaroo]

BWAH HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

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*uck treeline

 

Alpine is "no walk up" summits and the art of suffering.

 

If your legs and arms are all scratched up from devils club and 4 other species of stickers,

 

if you are at least a day behind on sleep,

 

if you have hiked 5 miles past where you wanted the trail to end, in the dark, with a fading headlamp

 

if you've frozen your a** off because you went light on the bag

 

if you ran out of water the day before and still aren't half way

 

if a smashed bagel tastes like a 5 star gourmet meal

 

that's alpine.

 

 

 

 

[Bogen]

BWAH HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

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*uck treeline

 

Alpine is "no walk up" summits and the art of suffering.

 

If your legs and arms are all scratched up from devils club and 4 other species of stickers,

 

if you are at least a day behind on sleep,

 

if you have hiked 5 miles past where you wanted the trail to end, in the dark, with a fading headlamp

 

if you've frozen your a** off because you went light on the bag

 

if you ran out of water the day before and still aren't half way

 

if a smashed bagel tastes like a 5 star gourmet meal

 

that's alpine.

 

 

 

 

All this sounds like is a rock climber trying to sound tough.

 

Alpine is above treeline. (<---that's a period)

[pc313]

I always thought treeline had to do the amount of oxygen in

the air?

[Bogen]

No, it has more to do with winter temperatures, windspeed, length of growing season, etc. You often see quite different elevations for treeline on opposing sides of a valley, due to the amount of sun each receives.

[Buckaroo]

""All this sounds like is a rock climber trying to sound tough.

 

Alpine is above treeline. (<---that's a period) ""

 

That might be true in general, but there are some notable exceptions.

 

This is the west face, of one of the Cascade ALPINE Hardman Trifecta peaks. The EDM(winter) and the West Face(Claunch/Schoening) start at the lower left snow spot. We're talking crampons for the 60deg pine needles.

 

 

NE Buttress of Slesse, the first 8 pitches have trees, the 6th pitch goes through a forest.

 

[Cairns]

Baring offers excellent views of nearby peaks, but as a climb from the W or S it is largely a subalpine forest exercise.

[dberdinka]

Appropriate use of Caps can help clarify your alpine rockclimb

 

 

alpine: you frolicked gayly in a meadow wearing "approach shoes", the rock was solid and clean, snow was noted on a moutnain far in the distance. i.e. Liberty Bell, Salish, Ingalls

 

 

 

Alpine: The snow is now between you and you're intended route. The pack is heavy, your legs are tired. i.e. Stuart N Ridge, Forbidden, NE Butt Slesse, Gunsight, EMS

 

 

 

ALPINE: It's cold in these shadows. There are now two heavy packs full of icegear. Rock and ice fall is frequent. The rock is loose, runout or both. Your fragile mortality is contemplated. i.e. Nooksack, N Face of Inspiration

 

[minx]

Fuckin A

 

or maybe that's fuckin a.... most days

[pc313]

I know what I'm doing,I had a cousin in the Boy Scouts!

John Belushi, Continental Devide.