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Wee Jock
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Sep 20, 2009 - 07:07am PT
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Hey Rick ... you said you could store your food right in the tents - no bears or other varmints around - little did you know: there were those most voracious of hungry varmints around who would creep into your tents the minute you left them -> raggedy Scotsmen!!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Sep 20, 2009 - 10:31am PT
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Do NOT even think about going to Chamoniz in August. Everybody in Europe is on vacation.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Sep 20, 2009 - 12:00pm PT
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Magnificent panoramas! Thanks for the beauty.
Anybody ever meet Snell or was he present in name only?
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Sep 20, 2009 - 01:10pm PT
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Sep 21, 2009 - 01:00am PT
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What a good thread; Mssr Michelat's aerials are fantastique!
I'd not seen the true extent of the Bonatti Pillar devastation so well displayed. After the collapse of the Caroline Face on Mt Cook that must be the biggest rockfall in the 'modern' era, n'est-ce pas?
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Oct 28, 2009 - 11:26pm PT
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Beauty Bump!
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Fritz
Trad climber
Hagerman, ID
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Oct 29, 2009 - 12:00am PT
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Bump for Froggie-Alps adventure/art/n/culture stories.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Oct 29, 2009 - 12:39am PT
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Formidab' et merci!
A Quebec, on dit "Mont Mau-dzit"! You 'ave to say it, 'ow you say? Like, mau-dzit tabernac', non? Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!
Salut!
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Rob_James
Mountain climber
Aoraki/Mt. Cook Village, New Zealand
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Oct 29, 2009 - 01:35am PT
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Late July through August is crazy-horse busy - but there is still plenty for everyone. Indeed there is also the Tatra and Julians to consider.
Winter is cold, though there's plenty of fun still to be had below 4K.
Chamonix campgrounds are packed through most of summer-spring and thieves are always busy in the valley. Gear can be stored at the train station; alternately be sincere and friendly when booking a night or two in a hostel and they may well let you come and go as you please to collect gear.
As long as you are up before the morning checks('bout 06:00 in summer) you can bivvy near anywhere quiet in town without much concern. Note that the environmental impact of loads of people bivvying in the forests is not cool.
I've been enjoying Chamonix for years bivvying and eating like a king on 50 euros a week. Make friends with locals and some may even let you sleep under their cars in mildly-heavy weather. When it's really wet and or snowing, I oft just zzzzz in the emergency waiting room at the hospital.
It's a brilliant place, the locals wonderful once they've warmed to you - the worthy mountain mecca.
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RDB
Social climber
wa
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Jan 19, 2011 - 04:17am PT
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bump for Chamonix!
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eurotrash
climber
Denmark
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Jan 23, 2011 - 06:38am PT
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How about a ST guide to Chamonix? The British Alpine Club guide hasn't been updated since 1990.
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perswig
climber
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Jan 23, 2011 - 08:23am PT
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Jeez, the pics in the OP link are magnificent.
Dale
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 29, 2011 - 05:09pm PT
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Alpine Bump!
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steveA
Trad climber
bedford,massachusetts
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Jan 29, 2011 - 07:09pm PT
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I did the Walker Spur with John Bouchard in 1975. Funny, but I don't remember even taking a route description. The line was pretty obvious once you got started.
Voytek Kurtyka and partner were hot on our heels on the final summit pitches
since a bad storm was closing in. The lightning was pretty bad, hitting both Kurtyka and Bouchard. I will always remember that climb.
John, had burn holes thru his mittens and out his socks, as the lightning went thru him. He was pretty lucky!
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Feb 27, 2011 - 04:08pm PT
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bump
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 31, 2013 - 12:09pm PT
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Beauty Bump...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Sep 10, 2016 - 10:16pm PT
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Alpine Beauty Bump...
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