JZickler Posted November 14, 2013 Posted November 14, 2013 (edited) Trip: Beartooths - Funeral For a Friend Date: 11/10/2013 Trip Report: Sunday the 10th Ben Boldt and I enjoyed early season ice on the Beartooth mega-classic Funeral For a Friend. We spent Saturday cragg’n on flows lower in the canyon and punched through the drifted snow on the road to the Glacier Lake TH. On the hike in Sunday morning we encountered typical Fall continental snow conditions – bare ground in spots and 4 foot drifts in others for the first mile and consistent shin to nut post-holing through sugar snow from the bridge to Glacier Lake. We found the route to be in fantastic condition. All the major flows were in fat (in comparison to other reports I’ve seen) and the perfect golden granite made for great moderate mixed climbing. When we made it back to our vehicle that evening we discovered it had been burglarized and the thieves cleaned us out of nearly 15k of gear! Below is the short list of high $ items that were taken. If any of you Montana guys out there come across back-woods drug addicts selling climbing doohickeys that they have no business possessing let me know! Nikon D800 Camera Body Nikon 24-70 f/2.8 Lens Sigma 70-200 f/2.8 Lens Fstop Loka Camera Backpack Nikon SB700 Hotshoe Flash Nikon SB600 Hotshoe Flash Hoya 72mm UV HD Digital Filter Black Apple iPad2 Black Diamond Stigma Skis (orange) w/ Fritschi Diamir Eagle Ski Bindings K2 Coomback Skis (blue) w/ Dynafit Radical ST bindings Scarpa Maestrale Ski boots size 27.5 Mammut Pulse Barryvox Avalanche Beacon Camalots .3-4 (with color matching Photon biners) Master Cams 00-6 (with color matching Photon biners) Cheers! Jeff Gear Notes: Ice screws and a small rock rack Approach Notes: Too bony for skis but snowshoes would have been nice. Edited November 14, 2013 by JZickler Quote
John Frieh Posted November 14, 2013 Posted November 14, 2013 DAMN! That sucks dude! I'd consider posting over on Montana Ice as maybe a few of the FB pages for Montana ice climbers. Small consolation prize but looks like some great climbing. Quote
JZickler Posted November 14, 2013 Author Posted November 14, 2013 Great advice, John. The climbing was fantastic and we were grinning ear to ear until we got back to our vehicle. Talk about a buzz kill. Quote
keenwesh Posted November 15, 2013 Posted November 15, 2013 I fucking hate tweakers. Glad you enjoyed the route, it's one of the best. Quote
ivan Posted November 15, 2013 Posted November 15, 2013 a damn shame that tweakers, unlike bears, don't hibernate Quote
MonkeyBoots Posted November 16, 2013 Posted November 16, 2013 Sucks about the dipshit loser meth fucks, but the climb looked awesome. Check Craigslist for ads with your stuff if you aren't already; friend of mine just had the same happen and she recovered most of it through Craigslist and police help Quote
JZickler Posted November 18, 2013 Author Posted November 18, 2013 Checking CL and other gear sale sites has almost become an obsession! Fortunately, Carbon Co. MT is Mayberryesque and the Sherriff's department has been great to work and they're proactively working the case. A stark contrast to the "police are powerless to help you" attitude from agencies in larger jurisdictions. Jethro and Jim-bo have been sloppy and I'm pretty sure they'll get caught. Quote
Joa Posted November 19, 2013 Posted November 19, 2013 Unless you can get the sheriff dpt to do it then it might be worth another trip out there to set up a sting with a gps enabled device. Keep good notes and get a writeup of the adventure published in a climber rag Quote
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