[TR] Maximum Impact Climbing - 8/28/2010

[tvashtarkatena]

Trip: Maximum Impact Climbing -

 

Date: 8/28/2010

 

Trip Report:

[video:youtube]

 

Everything you need to know about Mt. Ballard.

 

Gear Notes:

A sturdy pair of shoes

 

Approach Notes:

Stop, Look and Listen

[rocky_joe]

boo. trundled once, regretted it, never again.

[JoshK]

Mother Gaia is weeping!!

[Dan_Miller]

Exactly my recollection of the majority of terrain on both Ballard and Azurite. And I'm a Ballard Native, after all. Glad I don't have to go back!

[tvashtarkatena]

boo. trundled once, regretted it, never again.

 

 

salt-lick by PatGallagherArt, on Flickr

 

Edited September 11, 2010 by tvashtarkatena

[summitchaserCJB]

Enjoy yourself

[ivan]

doesn't count unless you take out at least 2 mounties.

[klenke]

Mother Gaia is weeping!!

Remember Mt. Higgins?

[RyanPete81]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2003858900_webclimberdeath29.html

[alpenho]

then there's this story from MT, which didn't work out so well for the trundler's in question:

 

September 25, 1994, a Butte climber named Tony Rich was killed not far from where Earnest Bruffey landed decades earlier. Rich died under a cascade of huge boulders while ascending Granite Peak by way of the snow-covered north face. His climbing partner, Fred Donich of Ennis, said that the two frantically tried to dig themselves into the snow in hopes that the rocks might skid over them. But Rich’s helmeted head was crushed by a truck-sized boulder that rolled down from the summit above. An investigation followed, and ultimately three young climbers who were on the peak above Rich and Donich were charged with negligent endangerment relating to the incident. Evidence indicated the threesome had pushed tons of rocks and debris off the summit without knowing there were climbers below. Each defendant ultimately pled guilty to misdemeanor charges.

[TMO]

Seems to me like we have enough natural and party inflicted rockfall to worry about... not that I have or would climb that route.

[ivan]

killjoys.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

Seems to me like we have enough natural and party inflicted rockfall to worry about... not that I have or would climb that route.

 

[tvashtarkatena]

Oh, trust me Ivan, not killjoys at all LOL

 

Expected more of the usual assclowns, KKubed was a given, but still a decent turn out.

 

The trundling was particularly good on this mountain, but it didn't hold a roman candle to the fuel canisters we detonated in the old campfire the night before. They went up like mini IEDs. No film, though. You Mountie Trip Leaders out there'll have to wait till next time to opine on that.

 

 

[Bronco]

then there's this story from MT, which didn't work out so well for the trundler's in question:

 

September 25, 1994, a Butte climber named Tony Rich was killed not far from where Earnest Bruffey landed decades earlier. Rich died under a cascade of huge boulders while ascending Granite Peak by way of the snow-covered north face. His climbing partner, Fred Donich of Ennis, said that the two frantically tried to dig themselves into the snow in hopes that the rocks might skid over them. But Rich’s helmeted head was crushed by a truck-sized boulder that rolled down from the summit above. An investigation followed, and ultimately three young climbers who were on the peak above Rich and Donich were charged with negligent endangerment relating to the incident. Evidence indicated the threesome had pushed tons of rocks and debris off the summit without knowing there were climbers below. Each defendant ultimately pled guilty to misdemeanor charges.

 

It's my understanding that trundling is illegal in Montana now.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

It's my understanding that trundling is illegal in Montana now.

 

You'd think anyone with half a brain would know trundling is a horrible idea, yet alone climbers.

 

[Off_White]

Trundling is just acting as an agent for entropy. Those boulders are just aching to achieve a lower energy state, and it's an act of mercy for the cosmos to do every little bit to hasten the heat death of the universe.

 

It is bad to trundle on others though...

[tvashtarkatena]

 

 

Trundling is a necessary survival skill on any shitty route you plan to reverse. What you don't remove will be waiting to remove you on the way down. Its also very, very satisfying, especially when digitally memorialized. The best things in life truly are free. We are very diligent in making our shittiest routes slightly less shitty for those who, inexplicably, choose to follow. We can't legally own a mini gun, so I ask: what choice do we have?

 

We practice this skill often and get out a lot, so some of you may to wish to move to a safer state, such as Montana, which affords the additional benefit of looking the other way regarding certain cross species liaisons.

 

It is true that, given this mountain's high popularity, particularly the gully in question, and full to bursting parking lot, we should both be severely punished...preferably while tied up.

[ivan]

if boulders don't want to be trundled they should form unions

[tvashtarkatena]

God created boulders, mountains, gravity, and digital cameras for a reason. I refuse to believe it's all random and meaningless.

[ivan]

God created boulders, mountains, gravity, and digital cameras for a reason. I refuse to believe it's all random and meaningless.

might be true, but then by that logic he woulda created mondays n' fairweather n' rain on weekends too - that shit don't balance out, see?

 

the sound of crashing boulders n' smell of gunsmoke always makes me think of god

 

probably why i don't dig trundling all that much, that n' i'm a moral coward

[JoshK]

8D 8D

 

[alecapone]

It was almost a triple!!!

 

ohhhhhhh ohhhhhhh OHHHHHHHHH!

[TMO]

 

[ivan]

***no marmots were harmed in the making of this film***