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TheSoloClimber
Trad climber
Vancouver
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Jun 19, 2012 - 09:11am PT
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I heard it was named to commemorate the 'first nude ascent of Diedre.'
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 19, 2012 - 12:10pm PT
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Nice one Neal!
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jun 19, 2012 - 12:21pm PT
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FRNFAD = First Recorded Nude Free Ascent of Diedre. It's not like our elders necessarily thought it fit to tell us everything about what they did. Discretion and understatement used to be important, before they invented television and internet forums, where people blab endlessly about themselves.
#2,900!
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jun 20, 2012 - 01:08am PT
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There was a rockfall on the backside trail at Squamish yesterday, which is now closed while BC Parks tidies up, and assesses the situation. The rockfall is an estimated 15 - 20 tonnes, a few hundred m up from the start of the trail.
(Photo courtesy of a friendly bear, who need not be named here.)
http://www.clubtread.com/sforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=50689
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Relic
Social climber
Vancouver, BC
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Jun 20, 2012 - 01:21am PT
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I assume no one got smoked by that rock? If its the stairs that got hit would that mean the rockfall came from the bulletheads?
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Fish Boy
Trad climber
Vancouver
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Jun 20, 2012 - 02:40am PT
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Anyone got the new guide?
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 20, 2012 - 02:41am PT
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Will they have to re-route the trail? And re-write the guide?
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hamish f
Social climber
squamish
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Jun 20, 2012 - 09:56am PT
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Ouch. Really fortunate it wasn't bumper-to-bumper on that staircase when the vehicle size boulder dropped down. Would've been the worst Chief accident by a mile. Phew. Safer to go mountain biking.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 20, 2012 - 11:05am PT
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Ya good thing it didnt happen on a busy saturday.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jun 20, 2012 - 12:25pm PT
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 20, 2012 - 03:48pm PT
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Those stairs look like they did ok considering they got hit by a 20 tonne chunk!!
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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Jun 20, 2012 - 04:36pm PT
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Hike the Chief........
Yer gonna die!!!!
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jun 20, 2012 - 04:48pm PT
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There's more photos now at the Club Tread link.
The trail is closed at least until this weekend, as they do the usual mopping up. They're blasting today, and apparently enforcing the closure - not a good day to do Squamish Buttress, Angel's Crest or any other route to the top of the Chief, as you may not be able to get down. http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/stawamus/ Usually BC Parks is slow to update its website, but not this time.
This does somewhat reinforce the idea of a proper loop trail, from the Stawamus River road (gravel pit), to the North Summit/Slhanay saddled, thence around the back. The old mountaineers' route.
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The Call Of K2 Lou
climber
Squamish
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Jun 20, 2012 - 08:10pm PT
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A shot of the North Walls in the afternoon sun.
Saw this fella early one morning as I pulled up to the trailhead (just south of Cheakamus Canyon). Couldn't get the camera out of my pack quick enough for a shot of him facing me, and he didn't seem particularly interested in sticking around to pose. Snob.
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The Call Of K2 Lou
climber
Squamish
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Jun 20, 2012 - 08:51pm PT
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Tami- Many thanks for the kind words. Ansel Adams I'm not; might be the Scotch? As for the name, Metallica fans (or readers of HP Lovecraft) will (hopefully) get the pun, and a bad pun at that.
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The Call Of K2 Lou
climber
Squamish
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Jun 21, 2012 - 06:00am PT
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Only on the Taco could one find a discussion of cthulus.
Jim, your remarks about the 18 year old Laphroaig are spot-on. My father, brother and I indulge in it once a year when we get together at Christmas. *sigh* Six months to go...
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 21, 2012 - 09:18pm PT
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Now I get it k2 lou!
Some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open such terrifying vistas of reality, and our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revalation or flee from the deadly light to the peace and safety of a new dark age.
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Relic
Social climber
Vancouver, BC
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Jun 22, 2012 - 11:29am PT
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Hamish, turn your brain clock back to 1979. Do you remember the route Crystal Burst, 10b at the bottom of the Apron? It looks to me like one of the most popular new routes in Squamish, Rambles, might be a re-scrub of your route. Rambles goes around the 10b part at the top with an easy 5.8 steep section. Jeremy calls the 10b an alternate exit.
You should go take a look at the base of the Apron at it. Cool route.
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