[TR] Liberty Bell - 5/3/2008

[tvashtarkatena]

Trip: Liberty Bell -

 

Date: 5/3/2008

 

Trip Report:

On Saturday Ivan and I drove up to WA Pass to check Liberty Bell out. Weather was coming in, so we opted for a run up the Beckey Route.

 

The weather came in.

 

Wet rock, frozen fingers, big boots = big fun:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looking down at the col

 

 

 

Party’s over

 

 

The next day we climbed on Goat Wall in perfect sunshine.

 

 

Catkin with ant

 

 

Gear Notes:

My mini ski bindings blew out = posthole descent:(

Edited May 7, 2008 by tvashtarkatena

[Doug]

werd

[ivan]

tvash = tr generating machine

 

saying "we opted for a run up the beckey route" though was a charitable way of saying "we parked at the big cleared space by the hairpin and so started uphill way too early and found ourselves right below the serp crack on the west face after a sustained bout of xTrEmE snowshoeing and therefore decided, ah what the hell, who wanted to do something hard in a spirited snow squall anyway?"

 

i remember feeling a faint twinge of The Fear at the last belay, as the rock and soaked lichen was pulsing w/ water from the melting snow - it seemed like the perfect verglas generator if only the temps had dipped a few degrees - at any rate, it cleared up for the walk down in the twilight.

 

what the macroscopic pic of the ant leaves blurry in the background is me sitting around drinking top shelf bourbon on the dusty ground for an hour while ansel adams squatted over every speck of dirt like some deranged, malformed sumo wrestler no worries, after a dip in the icy river i was very content, so long as our neighbors devil-dog kept its distance

[billbob]

Do you guys have some kind of mutant gene for climbing in shitty weather, because it sounds like you actually enjoy this stuff. Gonadic hypertrophy is a serious disorder, ya know.

 

 

 

[tvashtarkatena]

It's really good practice for, um, climbing in shitty weather.

[Doug]

Actually, I suspect you and Ivan climb in shitty weather to increase your chances of a "bivouac moment".

[tvashtarkatena]

Ivan's big enough to cut open and crawl inside should conditions require it, but I doubt that would extinguish his singing.

[billcoe]

Big props dudes, made me want to go turn the heat up right now, but are those pictures of Godzilla clawing over the top there or what.

[pink]

cloverfield

[setnei]

Nice work, ansel adams.

[TREETOAD]

Nice TR looked like a good time.

[Alpinsanity]

Actually, I suspect you and Ivan climb in shitty weather to increase your chances of a "bivouac moment".

 

You can't "spoon" without a bivy.

[layton]

I climbed perfect granite in sunny weather all day with a 5 minute approach and a 10 minute commute. Same tomorrow, same on monday.

Kinda makes me miss that shit

[lunger]

I climbed perfect granite in sunny weather all day

 

Sounds fun - if you like that kind of shit.

[ivan]

I climbed perfect granite in sunny weather all day with a 5 minute approach and a 10 minute commute. Same tomorrow, same on monday.

Kinda makes me miss that shit

what about my sunday of climbing slick rock in the cloud murk through thickets of dense poison oak?