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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jan 26, 2008 - 11:26pm PT
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Rally people, Rally...
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scuffy b
climber
Stump with a backrest
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Jan 27, 2008 - 05:55pm PT
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June. The Batholith. The Middle of the Goods.
Any insect issues?
Anyone know the age of the Batholith?
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 27, 2008 - 06:36pm PT
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Generally I don't seem to remember insects being an issue, around the lake somewhat, but not too big of a deal.
If we go into Humbugs(which we should!) the bugs could be a bit bad while hanging out around the base or in the forest, but nothing a little spray and dryer sheets can't handle.
Not too sure on the age of the rock out here...hopefully someone else can chime in on that subject.
Heading upto the balcony...
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goatboy smellz
climber
colorado
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Jan 27, 2008 - 07:14pm PT
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bugs...?
You're worried about bugs...?
Good God man there's grizzlies out there... mountain lions...
horny bull moose...BIGFOOT...
hell, haven't yah heard, a satellite could fall on us...
and your asking about bugs?!?
just between you and me, i'm scared chitless.
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Ricardo Carlos
Trad climber
Off center, CO.
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Jan 27, 2008 - 07:25pm PT
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IN, in and IN
Rich Sims
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scuffy b
climber
Stump with a backrest
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Jan 27, 2008 - 07:27pm PT
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Goatboy...I couldn't think of anything else to say...
but askin ain't the same as worryin
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TwistedCrank
climber
Ideeho
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Jan 27, 2008 - 07:47pm PT
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It's Cretaceous. The Batholith that is. About 70 million years old. Crack pumpin dinosaurs and all that. Serious.
My appearance depends on some possible big travel this summer.
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Jan 27, 2008 - 10:02pm PT
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From Wikipedia:
The Boulder Batholith is a small batholith in southwest Montana, exposed at the surface as granite and serving as the host rock for rich mineralized deposits at Butte, Montana and other locations.
The batholith is composed of at least seven and possibly as many as 14 discrete rock masses called plutons, which formed beneath the earth’s surface during a period of magma intrusion about 73 to 78 million years ago (Late Cretaceous time).[1] The rising buoyant plutons resulted from subduction along what was then the west coast of North America. Regional uplift brought the deep-seated granite to the surface, where erosion exposed the rocks and the mineral veins they contained.
The Boulder Batholith was named for the prominent rounded boulders that typify its landscape, the result of spheroidal weathering of fractured granite. It measures approximately 75 miles north-south by about 25 miles east-west, rather small in comparison to most batholiths.
...the rocks are identified as Butte quartz monzonite. The Butte quartz monzonite is an equigranular rock consisting o 35% plagioclase, 30% potassium feldspar, 20% quartz, 15% hornblende and biotite with minor accessory minerals. Locally the rock includes areas with crystals of potassium feldspar up to 10 inches in length (chicken heads?).---A climber's guide to Butte, Dwight Bishop.
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TwistedCrank
climber
Ideeho
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Jan 27, 2008 - 10:48pm PT
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Yep. Boulder Batholith. Idaho Batholith. Sierra Nevada Batholith. All more or less the same age and the same composition.
And we pull on three of em too.
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 28, 2008 - 12:43pm PT
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Sounds like the dates are firming up to be:
June 13th though the 22nd
This is the list of those interested so far:
-TKingsbury
-P.Kingsbury
-Mojede
-Blinny
-The RealBlinny(maybe)
-TwistedCrank(?)
-Happiegrrrl
-Tarbuster
-Kartch
-Stich
-HighGravity
-unimog
-Minexploration
-xtremecat
-ground up(?)
-Big
-roslyn
-RussWalling (a maybe)
-scuffyb
-Jaybro
-Brian in SLC(a maybe)
-goatboy smellz
-Sly(might work out)
-Crimpergirl(fingers crossed)
-Ricardo Carlos
-Christa
-Prod
-Hard Rock
hope I didn't miss anyone...
Another thing to consider is the approach into the Humbugs. I highly suggest folks go out and at least tick off the Wedge(pictured). If y'all are interested in doing some climbing out here, it'll either be a long day or you could do an overnight(since it's ~4 miles in). If folks are interested in camping out there, we could do a group meal(s) out there to cut down on weight etc...
just something to consider...
some good details and pictures here:
http://www.summitpost.org/area/range/299390/the-humbug-spires.html
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Hard Rock
Trad climber
Montana
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Jan 29, 2008 - 09:45am PT
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I could guide people in the back way to the Wedge for a quicker one day climb. I should be around. If people are around Spire Rock (and the Fish Creek road is Ok) it would be faster coming from Spire Rock. -Kurt
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Prod
Social climber
Charlevoix, MI
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Jan 29, 2008 - 09:49am PT
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Sounds PFC. Put Christa and Prod on the pretty interested list.
Prod.
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Jan 29, 2008 - 10:01am PT
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Thanks, Kurt. I was planning on also being a "tour" guide for the folks participating. The expanse of the Batholith needs local support to help the Bashers get what they are looking for in the climbing department.
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 29, 2008 - 12:46pm PT
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That's rad Kurt! Always good to have another local around for this.
edit: Psyched Christa and Prod are thinking of coming too, among others! We might get a pretty good turn out....
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homemade salsa
Trad climber
west tetons
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Hey Montana climbers- Anyone have or know of a Montana climbing accident that should be in Accidents in North American Mountaineering? I am gathering info on MT and ID for Jed Williamson for this year's ANAM.
Pop me an email if you do.
And those Humbugs look really fun- I think we are out of town that week but if not, it isn't far from Driggs ID where I live.
thanks
salsa
Lynne Wolfe
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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OK, a beer and two shots and there's no way that I'm about to read 100 posts, but somebody email me and clue me in.
There is a mule that I kept for a decade and then my partner took him up by Flathead Lake about 16 years ago and if he makes it through another Montana winter outdoors I feel honor bound to drop by and scratch his ear just the way he likes.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Scuffy, I think mid -june '08 will be the 'Age of the Batholith,' for many of us, anyway...
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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I'm thinking... put me in as a maybe...
good t-shirt graphic:
Age of the Batholith
It Came From The Late Cretaceous!
One Last Climb Before the Meteorite
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 4, 2008 - 02:01pm PT
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List of possible attendees:
-TKingsbury
-P.Kingsbury
-Mojede
-Blinny
-The RealBlinny(maybe)
-TwistedCrank(?)
-Happiegrrrl
-Tarbuster
-Kartch
-Stich
-HighGravity
-unimog
-Minexploration
-xtremecat
-ground up(?)
-Big
-roslyn
-RussWalling (a maybe)
-scuffyb
-Jaybro
-Brian in SLC(a maybe)
-goatboy smellz
-Sly(might work out)
-Crimpergirl(fingers crossed)
-Ricardo Carlos
-Christa
-Prod
-Hard Rock
-homemade salsa(if not out of town)
-Piton Ron(if his mule survives another MT winter?)
-Ed Hartouni(a maybe)
-Betty J
-ionlyski
-LizR
ANY QUESTIONS?
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goatboy smellz
climber
colorado
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Is the base camp going to be at the lake or the hot springs?
Or is that still up in the air?
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