from Mountains and Water
For only the second time in my life, I got up too early Saturday morning and caught a plane (which left two hours late for a one hour flight)from Denver to Salt Lake City. A quick bus ride into town (no expense account for a taxi) left me blinking in the bright sun outside the Salt Palace, a sprawling building surrounded by vendor tents and athletic people on cell phones. With no time to waste, I picked up my media badge and strode in, more or less beelining it to the climbing ghetto in the farthest corner
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from Climb with kids
This past weekend we took Dave's advice ( @BlueFoxCA ) and braved the rainy forecast for a belated Mother's Day trip to the Gunks. The trip was a lesson to us with regard to future trip planning. Some of the lessons were logistical and others were things we KNOW but don't always follow. Here's the trip report with the good, the bad, and the ugly. All in all, it's truly a reminder that a bad day of climbing is still better than a day of no climbing at all! We left central PA around 5:30 pm and drove the ...
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from 2010 Mountaineering Season
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8:00 PM last night,
Pete Anderson's group,
10,000 foot granite hunk,
Caitlin Hague,
foot granite hunk,
view of backside,
Earlier in the day,
8:00 PM,
Upper Coffee glacier,
PM last night
Guides Caitlin Hague and Peter Anderson with students, Steve, Craig, Stephen, Kali, Russell and Ian. Earlier in the day they reviewed stove set up and use. At 8:00 PM last night, Pete Anderson's group flew into the Upper Coffee glacier; a unique place and seldom visited. They have a view of backside of the Moose's Tooth, a 10,000 foot granite hunk of rock.
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from Mountains and Water
The weather finally cleared up on the weekend so I was able to boulder outside. The snow has been so persistent that only very sun-exposed features at Flagstaff were climbable. Saturday especially was the day that the crowds really hit the mountain, not climbers so much as beer-drinking high school kids. I felt really tired and couldn't climb much of interest. However a shout out to OSMP for sandblasting the graffiti off the traverse on the backside of the Amphitheater Sunday was a bit better. After a long
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from Colorado MoJo
Somewhat surprisingly, we didnt get a winner in this weeks mystery resort contest. Pete Bronski gives us the reveal:
The identity of the mystery photo is Little Annie, located on the west side of Richmond Hill, off the backside of Aspen Mountain. As a Powder Ghost Town, its a tiny bit misleading, in the sense that [...]
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from Guy Steven - Mountain Leader
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traverse right,
Cobwebs on the crampons,
Sabre Tooth,
cave section,
suggested grade,
climbing a right pain,
Lost Valley Buttress,
IV,5,
VII,7,
Today Kenny
Today Kenny and I had an early start with the head torches and shot up to Lost Valley Buttress. We set off on Neanderthal (VII,7), I lead the first pitch getting us up into the cave section. From here Kenny went for the traverse right but the condition weren't playing ball, everything was plastered in 'snice' (thanks Al , didn't know what that was called) which made the climbing a right pain in the backside. So we abbed off and headed round and climbed Sabre Tooth (IV,5), which was very steep and seemed
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from West Coast Mountain Guides
Menacing clouds over Loch Leven yesterday morning and a poor forecast, led me to believe that a very bad day with really strong winds was coming in. The tricky pitch at 2/3rds height on Curved Ridge. There has been a big rockfall just below this and a fair amount of loose rock remains. On top of Crowberry Tower with Rannoch Moor behind and a pretty good day so far. We even managed a trip out to Stob na Broige and no rain all day. The wind was fresh, but manageable. Still plenty of clouds associated with
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from Savage Climbing
We spent most of our time this weekend bouldering at the YMCA area of Black Mountain. The results were amazing.
The YMCA area is named for an old camp on the backside of the mountain that burned down a few years ago. Here you will find an impressive cluster of large, well featured boulders. [...]
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from Arc'teryx Latest News
A Will Stanhope adventure, photos by Rich Wheater The Cobra Crack is located on the Backside of the Chief, tucked away from the hustle and bustle of the Squamish Valley. It is a long, sinuous and truly beautiful crack up an otherwise blank wave of granite. Enormous old growth Douglas firs tip toward the cliff, there's no highway noise, and the entire wall is free of protection bolts. Hikers, having never climbed before, often stop and gaze up at it, if simply for pure aesthetics. It really has to be seen
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