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WBraun
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 2, 2007 - 02:09pm PT
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Yosemite Falls this morning taken half hour ago.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Very cool, how often has this happened? FA in the making!
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WBraun
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 2, 2007 - 02:22pm PT
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Get your ass down here Walleye.
You're gonna to lead this thing, and I'll watch from the yard.
Mtnmun edit: It's very rare occurrence for the falls to freeze up totally like this. I've never seen it like this ever.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Brr. I was climbing yesterday and every time the sun went behind a cloud I was starting to freeze.
How do those guys climb at Baffin? Boggles my mind
Peace
Karl
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John Moosie
climber
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My guess would be it froze because of the low water flows. Last year in November we had 2 degree weather and it didn't freeze solid. But it had higher flows.
The low last night for the valley is reported at 27. Thats not that cold.
Cool picture tho. Thanks !!!
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Lambone
Ice climber
Ashland, Or
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has it ever been climbed? that's cool...
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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About every other day, I think to myself, I wish I was Werner.
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McC
Trad climber
Livermore Ca
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Werner --
Great picture! Got me dreaming about Yosemite ice.
If you took any pictures that show the lower part of the falls, please post them, too.
Thanks,
McC
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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yeah walleye - great shot, like ka-bam!
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Double D
climber
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GO WARNER GO!
Would that be a cool send, or what?
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captain chaos
climber
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Nice Werner... seems like history in the making for the one who can act fast enough- To realize this read Werner's edit to Mtnmun again:
Mtnmun edit: "It's very rare occurrence for the falls to freeze up totally like this. I've never seen it like this ever"
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
St. Looney
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Looks like a good place/time for the next sushifest. Hahahaha.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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John Muir tells a story in his book The Yosemite, about doing death-defying scrambles on the ice cone under the upper falls.
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Early '90s and the missus and I had bailed on a low snow Thanksgiving ski trip at Kirkwood. Heading down the 49 to geek at the gold rush boutiques - we decided to swing into Yosemite.
Shooting the breeze with the bartender at the Ahwahnee bar about climbing it gets mentioned that we might get a good room deal since the tourons had left from the Turkey weekend.
The girl at the front desk gives us a handful of room keys and says - find one you like.
We didn't really get it free - but pretty damn close considering the regular cost. Anyway - we took a room looking out towards the Falls.
The next morning, laying in bed nursing a champagne hangover - we start hearing CRACK, WHISTLE, BOOM! every 30 seconds or so.
WTF?
Crawling out the window onto the roof ridge over the dining hall we crawled until we good get a more direct view of the Falls.
Sure enough, the Falls had frozen solid overnight.
That is until the temperature started rising as the sun cam up over the Valley.
The CRACK turned out to be the sound caused by a sheet of ice breaking free from the wall.
The WHISTLE was the sound it made dropping through the air.
The BOOM was the hit at the bottom.
This kept up for 20 minutes or so until all of the ice had peeled away and fallen or melted off.
All in all, one of the neater ways to wake up we had ever experienced.
Rick
:)
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Jello
Social climber
No Ut
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Perfect for a quick solo. Possible death trap for a roped team pitching it out. Wish I was still climbing--what a beauty!
-TantalizedJello
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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that's what I always thought,
looking at Yosemite Falls too Jeff. Yep.
perfect for a quick solo, after a bong hit.
or a couple olde E!
just a quick solo...man no problem,
me and bvd used to scheme on it all the time
wondering which one of us would go for it!!
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Shack
Big Wall climber
Reno NV
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Werner, just go grab one of the SAR 1500 ft ropes,
and go top rope that thang!
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fairweather
Mountain climber
Roseville, CA
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Let me get this straight. Werner has never seen the falls frozen like this before, but we need to act now or global warming is going to be the end of all of us?
Spare me the "global warming is the cause of all climate extremes" debate.
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scooter
climber
Moss Landing CA
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Polished granite + ice = CRASH!!!!
I have been under El Cap when huge chunks were falling off. Under the P.O. My Bud Matt got hit in the leg with a canteloupe size piece. Didn't break anything, but gave him a little El Cap charlie horse.
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John Moosie
climber
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Uh..... Fairweather, it only froze because the water level is low. We have had much colder weather. Last year in november it hit 2 degrees for over 30 hours and it didn't freeze. Last nights low was only 27 degrees.
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fairweather
Mountain climber
Roseville, CA
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Moosie - I've lived in CA long enough to remember many drought years. 76-77, and 87-92 come to mind as very dry periods. Maybe Werner wasn't in the Valley then (and it was frozen many times).
Radical - If you try to squeeze my head, I'll squish you like a bug.
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WBraun
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 2, 2007 - 09:55pm PT
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I was there for both droughts.
I just said "I" have never seen the Yosemite falls freeze up like it was this morning.
In the 77 drought winter we saw fish frozen in the Merced.
Fairweather, try not let all this stuff get to your head.
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Wonder
climber
WA
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Wait wait wait, Werner, you have been in the valley for the wettest and the driest year, EVER!!
History dude!
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poop_tube
Big Wall climber
33° 45' N 117° 52' W
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WHOA! May have to give it a go if it is still there next weekend. Looks like solid 5+
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crackfiend
climber
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I was in the valley today and saw the sight myself.
went to the gallery around 11 and when driving out at around 1 half the thing had peeled off. Better climb that thing FAST.
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fairweather
Mountain climber
Roseville, CA
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Lighten up Radical - For all I know, you could be a big bug, and I wouldn't want that mess on my thumb.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Karl got cold in Yosemite and asked: How do those guys climb at Baffin? Boggles my mind
Karl, it ain't the cold that makes you cold, it's the damp. I've spent the whole month of May on Baffin Island a couple of times, and the temp pretty much never got above 0 Farenheit and was often a lot lower. No problem though, because it's so dry there it makes California look like the jungle.
Now the coastal parts of the Northwest of your country and the Southwest of mine are a whole other story. In the BC coast mountains and the Washington Cascades you can really get cold. Even though it ain't that cold, thermometer wise.
David
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Conrad
climber
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Is the ice still intact? A top rope or traxion ascent would be some kinda worthy.
Werner - was the last decent cold snap December 90? - That is when SF had pipes freeze and Walt & Kevin "had fun" on lower Sentinel. Ice is interesting in that it forms different each year depending on flow and temperatures.
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Matt
Trad climber
primordial soup
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ice is for cocktails...
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Barbarian
Trad climber
all bivied up on the ledge
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CRACK, WHISTLE, BOOM!
I used to use that for my alarm clock when I lived in the Valley. I never saw it freeze solid though.
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pimp daddy wayne
climber
The Bat Caves
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I just sent it yesterday. WI6. Very loose. Nice soft ice. Easy conditions!
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Lambone
Ice climber
Ashland, Or
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bullshit
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H
Mountain climber
you name it
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By Sunday night it was almost completely gone. But Bridalvail fails was full on. Any pictures of that out there?
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bler
Boulder climber
Alamo, CA
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there was nothing there a few weeks ago, dry as a bone.. wtf?
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there wbraun.... say, i had missed seeing this post... say, thanks for the great pic... so then, we got the ol firefall at one point, and the ol icefall, at another...
way to go, yosemite :)
*also, ricky d.. say, great share about the thundering whistle-ice...
i remember one of my last visits to yosemite (our dad, when we were kids, would never take us up in winter, so i missed out seeing yosemite that way--he got turned back during a blizzard one year, not sure what month, and that was the end of that, for the future, etc)---well, that last visit:
it was early spring, i reckon... lots of thick ice under the falls and cool crisp weather.. very beautiful--any falling ice was done, but it was so neat to see it floating and piling up in the river....
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there wbrau, say... after reading some more of this post/thread... say just how LONG have you been in yosemite...
and just WHAT ALL have you seen? my, oh, my....
i reckon your're some of the history, all right, and in many right-good way... :)
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