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Tricouni
Mountain climber
Vancouver
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Jun 29, 2012 - 11:48am PT
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Hi gj,
Good weather?? I hope you're right, but I don't see it yet. I'm working through the end of August, then I'm free. We usually get great weather in September.. It's a very tiny project, but might be interesting.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jun 29, 2012 - 12:11pm PT
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Glenn, Hamish - was your trip to Anderson River after the BCMC Falls River summer camp? Did you get there from the Fraser or the Coquihalla side?
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MH2
climber
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Jun 29, 2012 - 12:49pm PT
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Hahahaha. Thanks, Bruce. It had been so long since I saw "Class I" used that I didn't realize the absurdity of it. You are so right, that sort of sandbag has come around full circle.
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Tricouni
Mountain climber
Vancouver
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Jun 29, 2012 - 01:01pm PT
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Glenn, Hamish - was your trip to Anderson River after the BCMC Falls River summer camp? Did you get there from the Fraser or the Coquihalla si
It was Aug 31, 1962, 2 years before BCMC Falls River trip and just after Dick & I and Ashlyn & Arnold got back from Howsons and Seven Sisters. The spring trip was also 1962, before that summer. I'd forgotten that I also made a solo attempt in 1960 or 1961, that ended in a rainstorm.
All those trips approached from the Fraser. I'd have to look at notes to see how far the road went.
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Tricouni
Mountain climber
Vancouver
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Jun 29, 2012 - 01:03pm PT
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Can you believe this ? It rained !!!! It bleedin' poured on us.
Rain?? In the Anderson Rivers? That area is supposed to be in the banana belt.
Maybe John R was John Rance? He was active around that time.
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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Jun 29, 2012 - 01:17pm PT
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According to Dick's blue book,we drove up Gilt Ck. Access was limited as there weren't as many logging roads, and noone had 4WD. Well, Dick did own a POS Jeep for a few months that year, but I'm not sure if he managed to sell it, or just abandoned it. Otherwise we used cars like Tami's, with similar results, which people borrowed from obliging parents. It was a 2 day trip, and we bivvied at "a major fork". Prophetically, Dick wrote "The east faces are spectacular granite formations". Indeed.
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Tricouni
Mountain climber
Vancouver
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Jun 29, 2012 - 02:35pm PT
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Anderson Rivers, Aug 1962:
North ridge of Ibex Peak. It's class 1, but it looks a bit twitchy higher up. I don't remember any twitchiness, though.
Bob Woodsworth, Asgar Bentzen, and Hamie on the way to Ibex in the Anderson Rivers.
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Hoser
climber
vancouver
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Jun 29, 2012 - 02:39pm PT
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If you go to Anderson, dont follow Alpine Select beta...thats all grown in and pretty much not happening.
BK with the 14 day forecast...almost like your not from around here....
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Hoser
climber
vancouver
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Jun 29, 2012 - 03:49pm PT
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Roads fine, approach across valley to old growth forest is epic. I heard somewhere its better to approach from other side and drop down from steinbok col....the guide for the area is here with reference to the non existant trail.
http://www.squamishclimbing.com/topos/Anderson-River-1207.pdf
I agree there will be dy days between July 7-July 15....but thats hardly a forecast
From your same site looking at the longest range they have...no sign of the summer ridge
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 29, 2012 - 03:54pm PT
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The weather patterns are so screwed up these days the models are having trouble making hide nor hair of it. This ridge does tend to keep pushing back in though, it seems like we've had drier weather here in whistler than squamish has had this month..
Oh Well.. Off to SKAHA!!!!
Henkle romps up Black Widow 5.8
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Jun 29, 2012 - 04:24pm PT
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Keep this Anderson River talk in the Chehalis Peaks thread already dammit!
;D
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Hoser
climber
vancouver
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Jun 29, 2012 - 06:02pm PT
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The models seem to be doing fine to me, we just dont like what they have to say. June sucks always has always will.
The high NW of Texas is the one BK hopes arrives between July 7-15...maybe
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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Jun 29, 2012 - 06:53pm PT
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Hey mALemute! What woke you up?
Drew's comment reminded me of the Question of the Week.
If the answer is "Dr. Brayshaw I Presume", what was the question?
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Hoser
climber
vancouver
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Jun 29, 2012 - 07:23pm PT
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If google didnt exist who would you ask?
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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Jun 29, 2012 - 11:49pm PT
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All quiet on the Squamish front tonight.
If the answer was "Dr. Brayshaw I Presume",
then the question was......
suspenseful pause.............
"Dr. Presume, what is your full name?"
grooooooan.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 30, 2012 - 12:00am PT
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Hello from the beautiful desert! We are Currently travelling through the high country on 97c weather looks promising! Hamie what are you up to this weekend? Come visit us in penticton! We'll throw you some belays!
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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Jun 30, 2012 - 02:02pm PT
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BM
Skaha--
--too far.
I hope your forecast is better than ours. It's pouring here.
Rain--
--again.
The new Bourdon guide arrived yesterday. Looks pretty good. Now I'll know where and what you guys are talking about.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 30, 2012 - 02:10pm PT
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Hamie- too bad. It pissed on us briefly this morning but it looks to be drying up fairly quickly. Gotta love the desert for that!
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Jun 30, 2012 - 08:24pm PT
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Have fun Big Mike & co. I was in skaha for the first time last week for 4 days, it rained every day, when it would start we would eat lunch under an overhang then start climbing again when we were done digesting. Unlike Squam rain doesnt seem to be much of a factor there, even when it rains.
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