Trip Report
Superflow Sunday
Sunday February 1, 2015 4:29pm
We decided to get up early and run over to the Big Horns and make today a Superflow Sunday by hitting up the Ten Sleep flow and getting back to Spearfish before the big game.
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We had a good day by getting out yesterday morning and climbing
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some steep ice in Community Cave and then Jack and I went skiing in the Bearlodge Mountains for a bit getting a thousand foot climb in on the Road that goes up Warren Peak. It was inverted and it made for some dramatic scenery.
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Inyan Kara a major peak that has 200ft Devils Tower type columns on a ...
Inyan Kara a major peak that has 200ft Devils Tower type columns on a dome in the center of a crater like formation toward the summit.
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We left town at 5am and got to the parking lot at 9am after some fuel and breakfast in Buffalo.
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The Ten Sleep Flow or I think some people call it the Liegh Creek Flow is a real beast if done in one pitch it has a calf burning 100ft of steep slap that leads to 60 very steep feet of ice
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and another 25 of low angle to the trees. I had followed it several times and lead the first half to some anchors on a rock route one or twice, but I had not got the business in especially in one pitch.
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It went fairly well with a good run at the crux, but I was pumped out of my mind on one occasion but held it together by punching completely through some thin class ice to have some great hook and pulls with the pick stuck into the head.
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We took a few pictures of the great terrain where we have done some big mixed routes in the higher peeks of the Big Horns.
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All in all this was probably my hardest ice lead and is certainly 4+ and probvably a 5 which would be my first foray into that grade on lead.
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I had been thinking about doing this one for about 20 years now and to finally get it in truly did make it a Superflow Sunday and we made it back well before the start of the game. I did take a good chunk of the half to write up the TR.

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About the Author
mike m is a trad climber from black hills. Who is cold

Comments
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
  Feb 1, 2015 - 04:32pm PT
hey there say, mike m... very nice share... thank you so much!
happy sunday to you, :)
thebravecowboy

climber
The Good Places
  Feb 1, 2015 - 04:44pm PT
mike, you are exemplary in the best of ways. thanks for sharing!
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Author's Reply  Feb 1, 2015 - 06:07pm PT
Here is a training run on Spearfish Ice from Saturday[Click to View YouTube Video]
telemon01

Trad climber
Montana
  Feb 1, 2015 - 06:16pm PT
Nice one Mike!
crankster

Trad climber
No. Tahoe
  Feb 1, 2015 - 06:27pm PT
Beautiful, Mike.
Ezra Ellis

Trad climber
North wet, and Da souf
  Feb 2, 2015 - 02:40am PT
Nice ice Mike,
Thanks!
WyoRockMan

climber
Grizzlyville, WY
  Feb 2, 2015 - 11:33am PT
Very nice Mike! I've been watching it over the last few days, thought for sure the bottom would be THIN to win. Great job.
Mungeclimber

Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
  Feb 2, 2015 - 12:36pm PT
good job upping your game!

Amazing color to the sides of the flow.
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Author's Reply  Feb 2, 2015 - 04:55pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]Been messing around with some video and found out that climbing is funner to watch at 4 times speed and that if you attach an AC/DC song to your sick video edit it disappears from the internet in about a half hour. Here is my second attempt. Stay tuned for Jack's preliminary effort.

Looks like AC/DC let me back on. I am so confused.
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