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[TR] Snow Creek Wall - Iconoclast 8-22-2010


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Trip: Leavenworth Snow Creek Wall - Iconoclast

 

Date: 9/22/2010

 

Trip Report:

Mao always sulks when she sees me running large amounts of stuff to the car. Here she sits on my pile of gear, on the off chance that by doing so she can prevent the inevitable: my leave taking.

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Team Psychedelic heads for Leavenworth. http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs374.snc4/45693_1461742659374_1107670161_31314937_4324499_n.jpg

 

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We arrive Friday afternoon and warm up on alphabet rock. Susie romps up to the proverbial "Z" of Z crack.

 

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And does a spot on rendition of the reincarnation of Lazarus come back to life in some cave.

 

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What a beautiful world!

 

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Liiiiiive!

 

Next day, John, Matt, and I did Iconoclast, an 8-pitch beauty on Snow Creek Wall.

P 1 & 2 The Remorse pitches (Matt), P3 the psychopath pitch, p 4 the roof pitch (Matt), p 5 the dihedral pitch John), p 6 the pitch from hell, p 7 & 8 the chickenhead ptches (Matt). I led the others. Here Matt works the moves on the 5.11 psychopath pitch.

Note my amazing rope handling skills.

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John has found his calling belaying the roof pitch.

 

We found the 2 dihedral pitches strenuous, but with good rests.

 

Here John joins me apres the dihedral pitches, where Iconoclast meets Outer Space at Library Ledge.

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...And Suzi and Ahad meet us having done "Outer Space".

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The incredible singing forest. The wind blowing through the dead snags made for some beautiful music with simultaneous high and low octaves. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Later I asked Matt if he had ever experienced anything like it. He said "Sure, many times". I said "Really? Where?" He said something like "Right here, of course". Smart ass.

 

 

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I lagged behind in my return to take in the sunset. Being alone, this bellicose mountain goat took advantage, charged and tried to gore me. I side stepped him. As he turned to rush me again, I blinded him with my camera flash and gave him a severe tongue lashing.

 

Gear Notes:

Doubles through 3 inches. A single 4 inch, and a few extra long runners.

 

Approach Notes:

Allow 45 minutes to an hour.

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Just edit your post, you can change the date of the trip, it doesn't have to be the same as the day of your post. I think it's great to see TR's even if they are six months after the fact, but putting the correct date on it means several years from now someone looking for past TRs might be able to find it and not think it really was a winter climb.

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Thanks for the beta. I'm kind of new to Cascade climbers. I tried several ways to change to the correct date of the climb (from this January to last fall 9-22-2010), but the Cascade climbers program does not seem to allow me to edit the date of a climb posted on the calandar year prior, unless I'm mistaken.

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