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darkside
Oct 9, 2006, 5:11 AM
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In reply to: Hey Kman, Did you end up getting to the icefields? If so, how is the bow falls area looking? Any other of the early season areas resembling winter?
Hafner showed no signs of freezing, and there was no snow in there so it looked .....weird. The holes were still in the rock though so we went ahead and played. Sticking UNfrozen mud is a little unsettling :D
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the_climber
Oct 12, 2006, 7:31 PM
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In reply to: Hafner showed no signs of freezing, and there was no snow in there so it looked .....weird. The holes were still in the rock though so we went ahead and played. Sticking UNfrozen mud is a little unsettling :D
Not to mention the potential fall into the pond scum. :lol:
Anyways, just took a look at the 14 day outlook and the temps should be dropping steadily through till the weekend of the 21st. With any luck that'll be enough for a freeze-up. That means it may be GAME ON!
http://www.needlesports.com/...r/tamiiceclimber.jpg
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rockguide
Oct 12, 2006, 7:39 PM
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awesome.
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kman
Oct 12, 2006, 7:48 PM
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In reply to: Hey Kman, Did you end up getting to the icefields? If so, how is the bow falls area looking? Any other of the early season areas resembling winter?
I have not been back up to work yet. Gettin pretty chilly here overnight though 8^)
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brent_e
Oct 13, 2006, 3:11 AM
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it SNOWED in hamilton today.
that means 3 months til good iceclimbing.
:?
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chossmonkey
Oct 13, 2006, 1:07 PM
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In reply to: it SNOWED in hamilton today. that means 3 months til good iceclimbing. :?
It didn't do anything but rain here. We're never gonna get any ice. :cry:
Bancroft has been getting below freezing though. Hopefully it won't be too long before it stays below freezing. :D
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brent_e
Oct 13, 2006, 3:10 PM
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In reply to: In reply to: it SNOWED in hamilton today. that means 3 months til good iceclimbing. :? It didn't do anything but rain here. We're never gonna get any ice. :cry: Bancroft has been getting below freezing though. Hopefully it won't be too long before it stays below freezing. :D
we should head up there one weekend. Eagles Nest.
I've seen it. It had ice in april!!!
Brent
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the_climber
Oct 13, 2006, 4:19 PM
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In reply to: I've seen it. It had ice in april!!!
hehehe, your still on the wrong side of the country :twisted:
brent, just do what I did while at Uni, take those student loans and book a flight to the mountains then do you budgeting. All you have to do is be willing to finish paying off your fees to the University in June.... how do you thing I got my Taa-k-oons :lol:
Mind you, Student loan refuses to give me money now :shock:
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the_climber
Oct 13, 2006, 5:49 PM
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I should be at Night of Lies, and there is a chance that I'll get to the other as well. As far as I know Darkside IS going to the show. And I would suspect he'll try to be by the beer too :P
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chossmonkey
Oct 13, 2006, 6:45 PM
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In reply to: I've seen it. It had ice in april!!!
April is way to far away. :roll:
When are you going to be able to go to TB and Nipi?
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kman
Oct 13, 2006, 7:47 PM
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I wasn't planning on going to the slideshow as I am just finding out about it. I dunno...I might go. I'd rather go climbing though. It's supposed to be nice tommorrow.
I will be at the night of lies though.
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skinner
Oct 14, 2006, 2:34 AM
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From what I have seen of Raph's photos on his website , I think he will have some awesome shots from his winter ascent of the Greenwood-Locke on the North face of Temple, or his Northeast Ridge of Mt. Alberta, winter ascent..
http://members.shaw.ca/...hant%204%20thumb.jpg
That's one crazy looking ridge.
Chic Scott's shows are good, as well. I always get to see new areas and thanks to Chic's slide shows, books, guide books, etc., I am going to be skiing into some more remote areas this season and pursue some virgin ice and alpine lines :)
So,.. all the above, and the fact that it for a great cause.. I'll be there.
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kman
Oct 14, 2006, 3:29 AM
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DAMN! That is a crazy looking ridge.
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rendog
Oct 14, 2006, 7:05 PM
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wish i wasn't in montana right now,
I'd be up there in a heartbeat to go head out on some late season rock.
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brent_e
Oct 15, 2006, 1:22 AM
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In reply to: In reply to: I've seen it. It had ice in april!!! hehehe, your still on the wrong side of the country :twisted: brent, just do what I did while at Uni, take those student loans and book a flight to the mountains then do you budgeting. All you have to do is be willing to finish paying off your fees to the University in June.... how do you thing I got my Taa-k-oons :lol: Mind you, Student loan refuses to give me money now :shock:
:lol: :lol: :lol:
here's the thing. The studend loan agency happens to be my parents (yes i'm a lucky bastard and no, my parents aren't rich and neither am I, they're poor folk who worked their asses off for their kids).
Ergo, no superfluous money layring around.
Or VERY little.
I could buy a flight from hamilton to, say, toronto.
but, good story! :lol:
and Chossmonger,
might be able to go away spring break. Maybe in january? I'm honestly not sure.
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chossmonkey
Oct 15, 2006, 2:18 AM
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In reply to: and Chossmonger, might be able to go away spring break. Maybe in january? I'm honestly not sure.
You better let me know soon, my schedule is filling up. Hopefully.
We might be going to Quebec with Dan and Alison, don't know when yet.
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skinner
Oct 15, 2006, 3:03 AM
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In reply to: wish i wasn't in montana right now, I'd be up there in a heartbeat to go head out on some late season rock.
wtf are you doing in Montana?
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rendog
Oct 15, 2006, 4:53 AM
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you wouldn't believe me if I told you
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chossmonkey
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In reply to: In reply to: wish i wasn't in montana right now, I'd be up there in a heartbeat to go head out on some late season rock. wtf are you doing in Montana?
In reply to: you wouldn't believe me if I told you
He's climbing ice and not telling us about it.
FUCKER!!! :evil:
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rendog
Oct 15, 2006, 7:40 PM
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actually I'm down here on a pseudo vacation. After we went to Butte and stayed there for a couple days, realized the climbing potnetial as well as the historical value of the place...
we're thinking about buying there, fixing it up and then who knows....it does have to be a historical builiding though.
But we've got to find out a bunch of shit first. Then I'm going to have to head into the mountains and find new ice climbs. I know that there's lots of rock around, so I can imagine that there's lots of ice, just have to go find it.
Or better yet if I can find the right location I'll build my own area ala Ouray.
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skinner
Oct 16, 2006, 2:54 AM
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dog dude..
how long are you staying there for? I'll be there in a couple of weeks, and I do know of some "un-tapped" ice. I will have to dig up the photos. We did an exploratory fly over in my friends plane. I was armed with a telephoto, but hardly needed it once he started playing fighter pilot, going into dive-bomb mode on each little blue streak that I'd spot.
There are some very nice looking curtains of ice of in what appeared to be very remote watersheds. But later when we rolled out the topo maps, we found that the place is littered with totally drivable back roads. If you're still down there in a few weeks, maybe we can hook up and go check some of these out.
Butte History.. (possibly skewd version delivered to me by drunken cowboys)Silver mining camp becomes small town.
Miners are partying hard one night, when they wake up the town is basically burnt to the ground.
Butte is rebuilt out of non-combustible materials, the party's on again!
Butte becomes a boom town as electricity is distributed via copper wire, Butte has an abundance of high grade copper ore.. the party is in full swing!
Anaconda mines, the giant of the time, strip mines the area with reckless abandon, local rivers are polluted from heavy metals leaching into the water table. Sometime during the 80"s (I think) Anaconda pulls the plug.. the party's over, last one out, shut out the lights.
Close?
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In reply to: dog dude.. how long are you staying there for? I'll be there in a couple of weeks, and I do know of some "un-tapped" ice. I will have to dig up the photos. We did an exploratory fly over in my friends plane. I was armed with a telephoto, but hardly needed it once he started playing fighter pilot, going into dive-bomb mode on each little blue streak that I'd spot. There are some very nice looking curtains of ice of in what appeared to be very remote watersheds. But later when we rolled out the topo maps, we found that the place is littered with totally drivable back roads. If you're still down there in a few weeks, maybe we can hook up and go check some of these out. Butte History.. (possibly skewd version delivered to me by drunken cowboys)Silver mining camp becomes small town.
Miners are partying hard one night, when they wake up the town is basically burnt to the ground.
Butte is rebuilt out of non-combustible materials, the party's on again!
Butte becomes a boom town as electricity is distributed via copper wire, Butte has an abundance of high grade copper ore.. the party is in full swing!
Anaconda mines, the giant of the time, strip mines the area with reckless abandon, local rivers are polluted from heavy metals leaching into the water table. Sometime during the 80"s (I think) Anaconda pulls the plug.. the party's over, last one out, shut out the lights.
Close?
pretty close actually. for a very short overview anyway. The best story I heard while there was the one about the geese. 210 geese landed in the old pit that's been flooded on thier flight south. The town woke up the next day to find 210 carcasses floating in the water. They now employ a guy to sit on the rim of the pit and straffe animals with gunfire if they approach the water.
as for the whorehouse raoul.....alas tis shut down down. Such a shame.
But i digress, this is about climbing not the town history. Skinner I'm actually back in calgary now. drop me a pm and maybe we can hook up one evening and go over some things
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