Dru Posted December 10, 2001 Posted December 10, 2001 Went up to Lillooet Friday night. rained all night. drove up duffy sat AM in the rain. tube - in at bottom verglas at top. carls berg - sketchy WI6R looking icicles with gushing holes. nothing else much in. went back to lillooet & drove up bridge. now raining heavily. salmon stakes - kinda in. shriek sheep/ night & gale looked kinda in but hard to tell (hidden in the rain). heavy rockfalls observed & one almost hit my car drove back to lillooet and headed to marble canyon. rain mostly stopped first 2 pitches of icy bc in but anemic. other routes unconsolidated icicle curtains. 2 parties toproping. headed over to cache creek and down thompson - all routes melted out - back to Chilliwack 800 kms on the car and no ice climbed. IF a big freeze happens the ice might reform in time for this weekend but otherwise ice in lillooet is gonna be slim to nonexistant next week or so [ 12-10-2001: Message edited by: Dru ] Quote
Dru Posted December 10, 2001 Author Posted December 10, 2001 Should add that Jade Falls on the Bridge road didnt look too bad but did not want to hike uphill for an hour in the rain to get there. Quote
carolyn Posted December 11, 2001 Posted December 11, 2001 If it makes ya feel any better(although probly not ), there is no ice in sight here for a while at least. Ontario isnt doing so swell either....a bit of mixed stuff here and there. Where are the ice gods? Maybe this means we will be climbing into May or June then! Keeping the hope, carolyn Quote
Marko Posted December 11, 2001 Posted December 11, 2001 Thanks for the thorough, if depressing, report. It's rainging down here by the way... Quote
Dru Posted December 11, 2001 Author Posted December 11, 2001 FWIW there seems to be a fair amouunt of groundwater flow and if it evr does freeze up good then routes are gonna be fat... House Of Cards looked like this might be the year to climb it, more ice there than at any time in last 2 years... sketchy bridge across near night & gale (up near dam), for salmon stakes etc prepare to wade. Quote
Dru Posted December 11, 2001 Author Posted December 11, 2001 I invented a new form of ice climbing. 1) get on a route 2) hang from a screw/bolt/hook etc. and wait for a good climber to climb by you 3) hook a tool onto his or her haul loop 4) get dragged up the climb I call this Dru Tooling. Perhaps soon I will dru tool my way up many coveted M10+ routes. Quote
Dru Posted December 11, 2001 Author Posted December 11, 2001 to make you feel bad http://www.gravsports.com/Ice%20Pages%20Folder/Route%20Descriptions/Conditions.htm 10 days and counting! Quote
carolyn Posted December 11, 2001 Posted December 11, 2001 Hey thanks dru! I know I can always count on you! Quote
Dru Posted December 13, 2001 Author Posted December 13, 2001 lillowet this weekend too. http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/scripts/citygen.pl?client=ECCDN_e&city=WKF Quote
Cpt.Caveman Posted December 13, 2001 Posted December 13, 2001 I'm going anyway. Should be something in I hope. Wonder if the Tube has formed yet. It's on the North side of the road. Quote
Dru Posted December 13, 2001 Author Posted December 13, 2001 It was formed but might have Melted Out by now. Rained on on Saturday. bottom pillar looked good but very thin higher up (thin shell of ice over rock. Tied off stubbies? Quote
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