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Jaybro
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The West
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Cool sh#t there whatever the gear eh, tar?
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 4, 2007 - 12:30am PT
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Yah no doubt man.
I just love kickin' around in the snow and making skis go!
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Jello
Social climber
No Ut
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I love that tour. Roy, you were with Steve Pomerance? What's that old Boulder politco up to?
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 4, 2007 - 09:43am PT
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Well to spin out some thread drift Jello Bean,
He's still doin' politics and is married to his soul mate Allyn.
A couple months back, Sibley got back with Deborah & got hitched. So Bill Roos, Gino, Karl Arndt, Bob Carmichael, John Ruger, Burt Redmane, shoot a few others whom you know, had a little gathering thanks to Mike Yokel. Man what a re-union; very nice.
So these last weeks Pomerance and I have been playing hooky every Friday on the WI 3/4 circuit. I hadn't done any water ice, other than "mellow" alpine gullies on the sly, for over 20 years, but when Pomerance asked at the party, I figured I wasn't going to find a nicer, more cautious or well prepared partner.
He's now a senior citizen and that 'ole gorilla is strong as an ox, steady as a Clydesdale. Check 'im out:
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 4, 2007 - 10:14pm PT
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Well jeepers,
I guess that lil’ bit of thread drift with Jello didn’t really cover up the fact that Jaybro just outed me.
Ya, you know: Randonee is French for: “Can’t Tele”. That’s why people that do Randonee try to pass it off with the American not so slight of hand acronym, “A.T.”. Yah, Alpine Touring my arse.
Well that’s what it is to be a Blown Out Climber: you gotta get in line behind other activities, say more aerobic stuff, like cycling, ski touring, banging yer fuchin’ head against the wall and the like.
But I digress, it’s true, I can’t make a tele turn worth beans.
Jaybro said it.
I live it.
Done.
Besides, when your humpin’ it up and down and up and down trails in the woods, it’s too narrow to turn, so yah gots 2 groups of options when a turn is required, both involving violent contact with the snow:
A) “The hip & shoulder check” (down baby, down to dah groun')
B) “The tree grab & face plant” (the less favored but equally effective group)
So Jello, maybe you could get your fat red marker out, cuz I might have some discernable shots of Apache’s South Face, as well as some side shots of the Shoshoni Massif. You know, products of todays Ski & Ogle. I’d like to get up there with a real lens; anyhow, it was an exemplary day!
But first, I passed by N & S Arapahoe Peaks, which are 13’ sumthin’ers:
And Yah, does anybody know if these are, like CAT tracks?
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Rick A
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Boulder, Colorado
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Roy,
I was coming over the hill into Boulder today at sunset and was looking at your divide route. That’s a significant distance! Great solo adventure and very well told. How many days was it? I lost count.
Did the Commando Run a couple of years ago and it’s a long outing as well. Very impressive for your first tour on AT gear.
Rick
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 4, 2007 - 10:21pm PT
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Here’s the goods, in progressively tighter panorama:
This takes in L to R Kiowa, Navajo (just right), Pawnee, Toll, Paiute, Audubon (all 3 grouped right of center), Meeker & Longs (far right):
This shows L to R, Kiowa all the way to Audubon (on the far right), with Arikaree, Navajo, Apache & Shoshoni grouped left of center:
And last, Arikaree, Navajo (really Niwot Ridge, with Navajo’s summit in the back), Apache, & Shoshoni:
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 4, 2007 - 10:24pm PT
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I was out on that tour of the divide for two 12 hour days Rick.
No doddling & it was an elevated experience, hahaha!
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 4, 2007 - 10:27pm PT
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Arikaree:
Apache:
Shoshoni:
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Jello
Social climber
No Ut
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Tar, sort of like ol' man river, you just keep rumblin' along the rabble.
On the left is a route I did with Steve Dieckoff. And on the right is the approximate line of a solo. Because we're looking obliquely, the lines are not very accurate.
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bob d'antonio
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Taos, NM
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Tar wrote: And Yah, does anybody know if these are, like CAT tracks?
They are Bobcat.
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 5, 2007 - 02:52pm PT
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Hey neat Bob, nice to get an educated report on those paws prints.
And thanks for the Doodles Jello; those are some fine lines highlighting some Indian Peaks Wilderness sweet spots.
-Tarabble burbling out, untill the next rubble rumble ogle.
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 12, 2007 - 12:03am PT
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It's true.
That fat lupine hasn't been heard singing yet and there's still white stuff sticking to the ground, so here goes. Not ready, not quite, to move on to “Blown Out Climber Series: Slab Mongering & Mtn Grovels”
Today I decided to ogle the Thunder Lakes Basin, below Mt Alice, which is next door to Pagoda & Longs.
I left on my 17 mile rt tour promptly at 1pm, cuz they said there’d be more daylight on the back end and I’m a believer. I also went per usual, alone, and dint tell anyone where I was going. Ya, that’s how you do it. Then if you get hurt no one can find you.
I thought I might be in luck this time & just drive right on in and walk right up to Mt Alice:
But No Dice.
Here’s Tanima Peak (center) & Mt Alice (right), not far from where I parked the car:
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 12, 2007 - 12:10am PT
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I like ski touring because you get to see shyte all covered in very white snow:
And then you get to make tracks in it, or just follow other tracks mostly:
Plus, the Witches Hair dangling about is cool:
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder
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Mar 12, 2007 - 12:16am PT
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Now you're talkin.
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 12, 2007 - 12:23am PT
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The back, er, South West Sides of Longs Peak & MT Meeker:
About half way in I got a good view of the big face on Mt Alice that everybody, well almost everybody climbs:
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 12, 2007 - 12:31am PT
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Now here's the goods, sort of.
My nose was cold, and it wasn't cold out, but that's another story; that's why I dint line up the pics so great.
So I don' wanna take any crap about it, I'm just sayin' it now.
(of course you know I'm kidding, right?)
But here's the end of today's Rubble Ogle, Thunder Lake, looking up at Mt Alice:
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 12, 2007 - 12:41am PT
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So that's that.
It was a purdy nice day out, given that it was warm enuff to make the snow like a giant slurpy; ya, like a slurpy that was served up after the 7-11 first had a hold up, a police intervention with write up, then you finally get your slurpy.
I was savvy tho. Yup; prepped my tips & tails with fresh glide wax, then rubbed glob stopper wax on my kicker skins, both directions, while they were DRY.
So here's a freebee I shot on the way in; a view from the car along the Peak to Peak Highway, of Sawtooth Peak:
This peak is often visible and very distinctive from various points driving into Boulder.
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 12, 2007 - 10:49pm PT
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72 degrees in Boulder today; what an awesome contrast.
Bring it on!
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder
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Mar 12, 2007 - 10:52pm PT
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It was so nice in Boulder today people were spaced out everywhere.
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