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Dingus McGee
Social climber
Laramie
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Jan 12, 2014 - 07:53pm PT
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From Guernsey State Park in October
Pics from Cow Feat Pete
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Gafoto
Ice climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Jan 12, 2014 - 09:54pm PT
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Hardly the first photos of these places to be uploaded but here's a shot off the Grand and off the top of Pingora.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 13, 2014 - 12:20am PT
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 13, 2014 - 12:27am PT
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jan 13, 2014 - 12:30am PT
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One of these days I'll get there Dingus, you've never steered me wrong on these places
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 15, 2014 - 12:48am PT
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Dingus McGee
Social climber
Laramie
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Jan 15, 2014 - 07:23am PT
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Mike M,
come on you sloth; you can do more than simply upload a photo and think we will know what the shot is of. The material is not porn to all of us. I am sure this material is as stimulating as porno to you but how about writing a sentence or two about these places and where they are if WY?
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Dingus McGee
Social climber
Laramie
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Jan 15, 2014 - 07:54am PT
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Jaybro,
Guernsey by temp records is the warmest winter climbing place in WY but this year temps & Conditions to go there have been falling short!
need sunny with temp max >= 40 & no wind
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sunny temp >= 45 breezy Ok
or
sunny temp >= 50 windy ok
and not
mostly sunny temp < 50.
Yes, Sunny days make this place work!
But perhaps I could belay with the Milwaukee Cordless heated coat? Problem is that the rest of the folks don't have one.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 15, 2014 - 09:23am PT
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Oh yes sorry dingus, but I have been spending many hours at night going through old photos as we had to replace our water heater and I had a bunch of paper photos stored above. I have been taking pictures of them with my phone and ousting them on here as a way to preserve them. I then has my computer tell me I was out of space so I have been deleting the bad ones so to get it working again. Deleted about 3500 and many videos so far which comes to about 10 gigs.
The photo above is from a couple of years ago on an attempt to ski the big chute on Big Horn peak. I have been in thereabout 8-10 times mostly trying to climb and have gotten a couple of routes done that were snow, rock and ice. Mostly in May and June. The place holds water ice very late in the year.
The picture of pingora a couple of shots up is after Butch Knight and I had a big epic and were lost in a snow storm most of the night wandering around in the winds in September.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 15, 2014 - 09:24am PT
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The picture on me with the peace sign is in the Tetons
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 15, 2014 - 09:47am PT
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 15, 2014 - 10:12pm PT
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It doesn't look like it but this one is every bit of 160 ft
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Dingus McGee
Social climber
Laramie
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Jan 19, 2014 - 09:57pm PT
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Laird gets his first 12 this year at Guernsey State Park. the new route "D cup Lover" was done on a second try today but Scarpelli and I moved after the photos during the first try.
It appears my camera setting got bumped into portrait mode; hense the softer texture and slight lack of sharpness.
Steve Babits says its 12b.
Temps got to 57 F by the local weather station. Add 20F near the rock and yes we were in T shirts.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 19, 2014 - 10:54pm PT
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Dingus that looks good. I will have to stop in and take a look sometime.
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luckylep
Trad climber
colorado
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Jan 21, 2014 - 12:06am PT
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Ha! The Guernsey route was called "D-Cup Love". Looks like Dingus is using his well-honed editorial privileges ...
On Sunday, Dingus also sent his route and I'm pretty sure he called it "Sausage Lover". Hopefully it's a hot lady that asks for a catch on this one.
-Lucky Laird
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Dingus McGee
Social climber
Laramie
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Jan 22, 2014 - 07:56am PT
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luckylep,
wend U get the photo of her so silly? Besides, tits not the kind of sausage Christina likes.
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Dingus McGee
Social climber
Laramie
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Feb 18, 2014 - 12:57pm PT
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A visit to Converse County Park
This almost unknown rugged terrain is just 6 miles south of Glenrock WY. For the all paved access to the park take Glenrock exit of I-25 and at about 1.5 east of Glenrock on highway 20/87 turn south on County Rd 90, Box Elder Rd and drive about 6 miles south. After a steep climb you will see a pullout on the left at the crest of the rd. ATV'ing,Hiking, fishing, kayaking, ice climbing, rock climbing, base jumping and canyoneering await.
Steve Bechtel told me he heard deceased climber Pat Parmenter of Casper looked about a little in this canyon.
ST member Mike M will be dying to get his fangs into the falls ice along side the stream.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 20, 2014 - 11:55am PT
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Tell me more.
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Dingus McGee
Social climber
Laramie
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Feb 20, 2014 - 08:53pm PT
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Mike,
There is a 63 square mi watershed above the now frozen stream flow gauge and most of the contributing acreage is north facing and above 7000' so there would not be much melt yet and likely no flow. Conditions in Box Elder cyn would be little sunshine and residual snow for some time in those zones of no sunlight. This setup allows for a lot of cold air to flow down the stream bottom.
The road to the park is open year round and plowed as there are many ranches and retreat home further up the road. The big falls which is very difficult to view from anywhere near the road is your best cold choice. But getting down to it is no easy task when the canyon sidewalls are covered with snow and the angle of talus is steep enough for one to easily slip for some distance when the slope is dry. But do it as an ice climbing descent?
A second option to get to the falls this time of year would be starting from the mouth of that canyon down stream on the farmland. That entrance land is private.
A third option is to walk down the frozen stream bed from the upper bridge to the falls top and rap on in. I would imagine this way to pretty neat and it offers a pleasant gradient that would be easier on the knees.
All 3 ways require a tooled up hike with less fang work going upstream.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 9, 2014 - 06:05pm PT
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jack finishing el cracko diablo.
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