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Flanders!
Trad climber
June Lake, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2009 - 02:43pm PT
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not exactly LVC, but cool. Lake Louise, Canada
Bruce Laiho, Louise Falls, P1, WI4
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Mike Mechant
Mountain climber
LA, Calipornia
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That Flanders scrambles up that frozen water pretty good, especially for an older gentleman with, let us say, less than 5.14 pull-up strength.
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rhyang
climber
SJC
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Doug, nice shot of Louise Falls .. wish I was there right now :)
Got out to LVC a couple of weeks ago -- looked like the Main Wall was coming in pretty decently, though at the time Spiral Staircase was pretty thin at the bottom still.
Didn't get a chance to climb anything except Chouinard & the Right Side though. Haven't gotten to a point in my recovery where I'm confident leading ice yet -- I should try that short line on Right Side sometime (rockermike's pic above).
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Anastasia
climber
Not here
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Bump just because this is such a good thread!
:)
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Flanders!
Trad climber
June Lake, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2009 - 09:08pm PT
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Rob,
good shot of the Main Wall! If you are still working up to leading again, you might consider the Roadside in June Lake. Contrary to reports, the Roadside has been good most of this season.
Mike,
I didn't know my pull-up prowess was so well known, I was recently clocked at .75, but have been training in secret.
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Mike Mechant
Mountain climber
LA, Calipornia
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Flanders: In fact, I've seen vid on YouTube of women in dresses firing off pull-ups in the Valley. It's possible beer was involved.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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great pictures... but aren't you holding out on us?
where's the video!?
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Flanders!
Trad climber
June Lake, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 4, 2009 - 10:30am PT
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Ed,
this guy is a level 4 offender, his PO makes him wear a helmet cam at all
times that transmits via satellite to track his where abouts and
activities. Funny, the only footage was of a hole in my pants.
:)
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Flanders!
Trad climber
June Lake, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 10, 2009 - 12:38pm PT
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Lee Vining Ice, March 7, 2009
climbers on Caveman, p1, WI 5
climbers on Caveman, p1, WI 5
Mark Stepovich, Heel Toe, p1, WI4, M5
Mark Stepovich, Heel Toe, p1, WI4, M5
Doug Nidever, Heel Toe, p2, WI 4, M5
Mark Stepovich, Heel Toe, p2, WI 4, M5
Mark Stepovich, Heel Toe, p2, WI 4, M5
Mark Stepovich, Heel Toe, p2, WI 4, M5
Mark Stepovich, Heel Toe, p3, WI 4, M5
Mark Stepovich, Heel Toe, p3, WI 4, M5
the lvc continues to be good, with the wet storms and very cold nights
Doug
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rhyang
climber
SJC
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Mar 18, 2009 - 12:09pm PT
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Main Line (WI4) on Saturday: me on left, Justin on right, Pavel behind the camera -
Sunday we were fooling around on Chouinard, and watched Doug bringing some clients up -
They looked to be having a pretty good time :)
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Flanders!
Trad climber
June Lake, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 18, 2009 - 12:57pm PT
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Rob,
good to see you getting out. You should be leading the way you climb though ! I guess it will take a bit of time to get on the sharp end again.
Doug
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WBraun
climber
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Mar 18, 2009 - 08:09pm PT
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Hey .... the guy in the red coat is cheating. He's stepping on the guy's head below him.
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Flanders!
Trad climber
June Lake, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 19, 2009 - 09:38am PT
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That's why you where a helmet isn't it? I mean it would really
hurt with crampons without the helmet. come on! This is
alpine.
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Tork
climber
Yosemite
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Mar 19, 2009 - 12:47pm PT
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Now your making me jealous Doug. Wish driving over there wasn't quite so far. What say we trade a day over there for a day on my route at Parkline??
Jeff
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rhyang
climber
SJC
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Mar 20, 2009 - 11:05am PT
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Doug, I just realized that your pics of the climbers on Caveman from 7-March are my friends Karén and Peter !
I believe Peter got a few of you on Spiral Staircase -
Looks like they went skiing the next day in Tahoe -
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Flanders!
Trad climber
June Lake, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 20, 2009 - 05:35pm PT
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Jeff,
How I do enjoy making folks jealous. LVC is a great place, with a good variety of ice and mixed routes. If you get bored with these, you can walk across the canyon and huff up "Master Cylinder" or "Silver Bullet" . I'll be over to check out your new route asap, has it had a mixed ascent yet?
Ed Escoto, Bailout Plan, P2, M4
Ed Escoto, Bailout Plan, P2, M
Ed Escoto, Fisher King, P2, WI3 M3 (we linked Bailout Plan with the upper section of a very thin Fisher King)
Rob,
Peter and Karen were fun to watch on Caveman, then up to Heel Toe finish. It is nice to see folks on these routes once awhile, even the local guides rarely, if ever, get on these routes.
Doug
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Flanders!
Trad climber
June Lake, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 25, 2009 - 11:59am PT
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End of a good LVC season, might as well sit a ponder the important.
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Flanders!
Trad climber
June Lake, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 20, 2010 - 10:26pm PT
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pump for ol' lee vining ice,
yippee
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rhyang
climber
SJC
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Jan 21, 2010 - 12:16am PT
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Looking forward to it !
btw How was Ouray Doug ? We're headed there the first week of Feb.. probably the next time I'll be out on ice with the way the weather's been going here ..
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mark miller
Social climber
Reno
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Jan 21, 2010 - 12:23am PT
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Sweet it is almost worthy of the drive down that odd # road. for posting maybe this series of storms will bring in some thick stuff. thank's
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