dan_e Posted February 2, 2002 Posted February 2, 2002 Climbed a nice three pitch route past Goat Wall on Thursday, up from the gate creek drainage. Goat's Beard is forming and looks impressive, but it still has a way to go before it's fully formed. The Mazama area has lots of potential, too bad it's so damn far away! Dan E. Quote
Lambone Posted February 3, 2002 Posted February 3, 2002 Nice, hey can you elaborate on the "three pitch route" abit? Just for curiosities sake... Quote
dan_e Posted February 3, 2002 Author Posted February 3, 2002 It was a bit rambly, but had some steep sections, I would say around 3+ depending on the exact line and about 170m from the first ice. Most of the ice was newly formed and was either really good or really bad and the top outs on the steep sections were a bit nasty consisting of cruddy snow and rock underneath in places. The start consisted of working around a thin ice dome with a good flow of water underneath, you had to completely avoid stepping on it and even after that it was easy WI 2 ice for a bit, but the ice was really fragile so I pretty much stayed off of it and climbed a bit on the rock (rock pro could be useful in places). After this was a short WI 3 step and then more rambly cruddy ice/snow. The last pitch is the biggest ice and is WI 3+/4 harder to the left which was not formed well enough for me, so I climbed the shorter WI 3+ ice to the right, which was still challenging due to the continued cruddy ice in places, but pro was decent. Funny thing was the garden hose we saw on the last rappel, it appeared to connect to the water source, but I could not locate the end. It's obvious someone is trying to make more climbs there, but it does not appear to be working. There is a line on the way to this climb that would be amazing if it formed, probably a 100+ free standing column, about 60' from the rock if it were to touch down! If anyone plans to head up there I can provide more details (for a price of course - j/k). Dan E. Quote
jstreet Posted February 4, 2002 Posted February 4, 2002 I was up on this climb on Sat Feb 2. Here's a photo of the last 2 pitches. Quote
jstreet Posted February 4, 2002 Posted February 4, 2002 Here my 2nd try at attaching the photo of gate creek ice... Quote
willstrickland Posted February 4, 2002 Posted February 4, 2002 [ 02-04-2002: Message edited by: willstrickland ] Quote
mattp Posted February 4, 2002 Posted February 4, 2002 I think the problem may lie in the URL for the image. I tried copying it through checking "image properties" and I could not get it to load. It looks to me as if street may have used the abbreviated address as it appears when he is viewing his own account, or something like that. Quote
philfort Posted February 4, 2002 Posted February 4, 2002 quote: Originally posted by willstrickland: [ 02-04-2002: Message edited by: willstrickland ][/QB] Ack! I pasted that into the address bar and it said "invalid URL" and showed me this instead: Quote
erik Posted February 4, 2002 Posted February 4, 2002 it loaded for me.....does anyone want me to describe it to them??? Quote
willstrickland Posted February 4, 2002 Posted February 4, 2002 I got it displaying, look up a few posts. Quote
mattp Posted February 4, 2002 Posted February 4, 2002 Whew! Now we can go back to work or move on to browsing that Britney Spears web site. Quote
Cpt.Caveman Posted February 4, 2002 Posted February 4, 2002 quote: Originally posted by mattp: Whew! Now we can go back to work or move on to browsing that Britney Spears web site. Maybe we need a full on Britney section here? Quote
jstreet Posted February 5, 2002 Posted February 5, 2002 Here's another photo from gate greek. This one is of the top (3rd) pitch taken from the rappel tree at the top of the 2nd pitch. I was there the week before Dan but the ice was pretty much as he described it. The short waterfall and ramble first pitch was mostly water so we had to climbed mixed rock/bush/snow just to the right. Quote
sobo Posted December 19, 2003 Posted December 19, 2003 I am not seeing any photos or attachments. WTF, over Quote
Alex Posted December 19, 2003 Posted December 19, 2003 this is an old thread and jeff's site has been 404 for a long time Quote
sobo Posted December 19, 2003 Posted December 19, 2003 this is an old thread and jeff's site has been 404 for a long time  OOOpsie! I feel stoopid. I don't how I got to that thread yesterday, Alex. Quote
ryland_moore Posted December 19, 2003 Posted December 19, 2003 Anyone know if ice is coming in round Mazama? Also, drive time in winter from Portland to Mazama? Thanks! Quote
Alex Posted December 20, 2003 Posted December 20, 2003 Portland to Mazama better part of 7 hours  (go to Banff) Quote
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