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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 14, 2013 - 03:10am PT
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Light brigade eh? Hmm you're right, most of these boys are a lot lighter than me! ;)
Weight wise that is.
Hey Ryan! I know that kid! I think he lives just down the block from ya!! ;)
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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Dec 14, 2013 - 10:29am PT
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Looks like the ubiquitous Northern Cliff Warbler, Lucas Cormierii
Solstice Bonfire reminder.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 14, 2013 - 02:52pm PT
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That's what i wuz thinkin!!
Edit Sunny and 5 degrees on Saturday according to Accuweather! WX looks great!!
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Dec 14, 2013 - 04:19pm PT
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All I'm saying is ice climbing can be seductively easy, but in the end the only thing seperating you from disaster are a few millimeters of steel, especially when you are soloing.
Ha ha. I think Tami knows a thing or two about the potential for disaster when soloing ice. The ride she almost took was over 2,000 feet, not just 200, and there just ain't no way the trees at the bottom were going to help her survive that one.
I've told the story here before, but for those of you that missed it, it's here.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 14, 2013 - 06:31pm PT
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Great story. No Tami! You're here for the Toonz!! ;)
Thanks for everything this past year. Love ya.
Mike
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Dec 14, 2013 - 06:47pm PT
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Warnings? Toonz?
Silly me, this whole time I thought she was the voice of reason ;-)
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Relic
Social climber
Squamish, BC
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Dec 14, 2013 - 08:35pm PT
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I thought she was a footstool or an ewok?
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MH2
climber
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Dec 14, 2013 - 10:09pm PT
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Good steeps, Bruce.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 14, 2013 - 10:14pm PT
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Nice Bruce! Thanks. Looks rad. I really need to go down there.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Dec 14, 2013 - 10:46pm PT
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You know what i find fascinating is how on any given mountain trip the hazard level hums along at a dull, pleasant low to non existent, or at least well within the realm of the bearable, then suddenly and often without much warning it jacks up like a richter 10 on an earthquake chart
What's really weird is when it goes from non-existent to "yer gonna die" in a microsecond. One sunny afternoon on the Kain Route on Bugaboo Spire I took a short detour out along a ledge on the SW face to absorb a bit of the view. Ledge was perfectly flat and about a meter wide. Not any kind of climbing at all, just strolling on a total sidewalk. And suddenly I was on my ass. No warning, no nothing. Just walking on a sidewalk and then down. Once I sorted myself out, I realized I'd stepped on an invisible patch of black ice. Could just as easily have been on the way to the glacier a thousand meters below.
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Dec 15, 2013 - 03:18am PT
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I'm an iceman myself...
... and out of training!
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Dec 15, 2013 - 09:16am PT
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Thanks for posting the pictures Bruce. Mari said she had a great time -- I'm sorry I couldn't take the time off to join you, but glad you made it in for dinner that night.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Dec 15, 2013 - 10:54am PT
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The area north of Hwy 2 near Gold Bar, just west of Index, was the holy ground of the "guns, beer, and off-road vehicle" crowd in Washington. All the time we spent up on Zeke's Wall we could hear the gunfire all day, and we'd see them driving around with beers in hand on our way out.
All of which would probably have been okay, except that their driving was destroying logging company roads and destroying salmon habitat, and the DNR eventually just forbade motorized access on that whole road system.
The ORV morons screamed about losing their God-given right to do whatever the f*#k they pleased, forgetting that in Washington State, God is represented on earth by the logging and fishing industries. (And Boeing, but that's a different story).
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MH2
climber
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Dec 15, 2013 - 12:58pm PT
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the "guns, beer, and off-road vehicle" crowd
Sounds like the civilization that succeeded the WORMS MAPS AMMO crowd Gold Bar once catered to.
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brownie
Trad climber
squamish
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Dec 15, 2013 - 09:31pm PT
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name that route!
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Dec 15, 2013 - 10:37pm PT
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Is this it?
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 15, 2013 - 11:59pm PT
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Hmmm.. One of the Sunshine chimneys?? Not the easy one?
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Dec 16, 2013 - 12:25am PT
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North Gully chockstone
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brownie
Trad climber
squamish
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Dec 16, 2013 - 09:16pm PT
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That's the one! a great adventure for those who don't know any better..
what about this one?
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Dec 16, 2013 - 09:27pm PT
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^^^^^theres a dude in there!
Is it pipeline?
What's this famous Squamish wall that Brownie is on.
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