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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Jan 10, 2013 - 08:13pm PT
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I can't claim to be anything other than a model in that pic. It was taken by Ken Legg. A couple years later the slide made its way into my hands.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Jan 10, 2013 - 08:35pm PT
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Nice shoes!
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Jan 10, 2013 - 09:07pm PT
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Haha Drew, outed! I knew u guys used to do some sketchy stuff but making your harness out of athletic tape just seems like a bad idea.
Edit- thanks Mike, would there be snow on top (could u top out?) or would it just be the first pitch that is doable, sorry I should just go check it out but like Anders I don't really do blackcomb, that & I'm lazy.
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Paul Brennan
Trad climber
Ireland
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Jan 10, 2013 - 09:24pm PT
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Are folks still on for a wee get together tomorrow? Fish? Mike? Would he nice to see everyone
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Jan 10, 2013 - 09:44pm PT
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Hey thanks Bruce, sounds awesome. Morning sun right? I'd love to fire a bolt in but me batteries are pretty good for 1 bolt each in summer temps so I'd be pretty f'in surprised if I could pick my nose with a 3/8 bit on top of Blackcomb in Jan. -maybe I could do my best Sid Cormier impression & smash some iron in there.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jan 10, 2013 - 09:49pm PT
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The first pitch is relentless 10 - 11 pet wall climbing.
Sounds like a good place to practice dry tooling. It'd fit in with the industrial ambience, too.
Dru, nice period photo!
Anyone up for a gentle outing Saturday or Sunday?
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 10, 2013 - 09:51pm PT
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Yes Dru. Thanks cool pic.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jan 10, 2013 - 09:59pm PT
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Perhaps for some, Blackcomb and Blackcomb Spire are untrammeled ƃuıʞɔnɟ wilderness. Not for me.
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Jan 10, 2013 - 10:07pm PT
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Thanks Bruce, i'll let u know. If not this stretch of high pressure, sometime this winter for sure. We'll see how warm it gets, I just started to get feeling back in my fingers yesterday from pet last week.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jan 10, 2013 - 10:13pm PT
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I preferred climbing and skiing in that area before it was developed. The fact that the land was later taken out of Garibaldi Park for private development without any real public process still ƃuıʞɔnɟ rankles.
I admit that I have tried the Blackcomb lifts. Once.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Jan 10, 2013 - 10:17pm PT
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No its not wilderness but neither is squamish
Understatement of the year award for that one. Squamish is pretty much top-of-the heap for industrial-ambiance climbing. Been a long time since I've been in the country above and behind Whistler and Blackcomb, so I can't comment on that, but anybody who loves Squamish can hardly be bothered by any kind of pollution -- noise, human, industrial, whatever.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 10, 2013 - 10:18pm PT
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Sure its all tracked out
Yes the areas that are accessible from the t bar but if you're willing to venture a little further there are plenty of amazing lines to ride in that valley that rarely get hit.
You can have the most amazing run of your life, while you look at tracked out runs across the valley.
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hamish f
Social climber
squamish
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Jan 10, 2013 - 10:24pm PT
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It must be winter because the entertainment factor of channel S is brimming. When it's an arctic outflow, you're allowed double portions of Special Kay each day.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 10, 2013 - 10:35pm PT
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sʎnƃ ʇı ǝlƃooƃ
;)
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Jan 10, 2013 - 10:55pm PT
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Sounds like Big Mike & Anders have joined anonymous, they are the only organization with the cyber abilities to do such crazy things.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 10, 2013 - 11:04pm PT
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I thought you were their st rep Ryan? ;)
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jan 10, 2013 - 11:27pm PT
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Yes, I've been to the McBride Range. On foot. Sometime must scan and post slides thereof.
The process whereby Whistler/Blackcomb took significant chunks out of Garibaldi Park, not just the Blackcomb Glacier but much more, began in the early 1970s. If we allowed ski areas to remove land from parks based on real or feigned claims of "public safety", we wouldn't have any parks. They remove the land to maximize their development, i.e. profit. Don't kid yourself.
Pretending that Blackcomb Glacier is still a provincial park in any real sense is absurd. It's hardly managed for conservation values, and I rather doubt that BC Parks has much say in what goes on there.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jan 11, 2013 - 12:22am PT
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Is there some reason they couldn't have developed say Rainbow Mountain - outside the park - instead? Admittedly, when Whistler was first developed and opened in 1965/66, having a ski area adjacent to a park was seen as appropriate - although they wouldn't then remove land from the park. That cam in the 1970s, and up to 1991. But when they wanted to expand in the later 1970s, why couldn't they have done so on Rainbow instead?
Sure, downhill skiing fits a bit better in or beside a park than say strip mining or drag racing. But shouldn't the first question always be "is there somewhere reasonable outside the park where this can be done?"
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Fish Boy
Social climber
Squeamish
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Jan 11, 2013 - 12:32am PT
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Paul, Mike, other people wanting to catch up...wanna do it at the Spew Pub since my house is really messy and I can't be shagged putting things away for another week at least.
I'll be home from work around 6.30. Meet after 7?
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