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FYI....triggered a small avalanche while rapping from the top of G1 into the descent gully at G1....20' x 30' w/ 10" crown. This was monday 12/3, guess the wind had set the thing up, it just needed a trigger, me. Heads up!

Thanks to everyone that helped make the Ice Festival a great time. After all, we can plan a party and if no one shows up then it's not so good. Coop and I are grateful to everyone that helped out and or participated. After spending most of the last week in the main fork of Hyalite I have a pretty good idea of what is in. Here is the run down. Note, the big winds that hit starting on Sunday are definitely going to be raising the avalanche potential. Hyalite has lots of sucker pockets that can generate nasty little slabs.

Went up to Palisades today. Road is icy down low and hard packed till the palisades turn off, then you would need a 4x4 truck, not subaru friendly. Ice is in fat low down, higher is in and very steep still, a little brittle from the cold but not bad.

HI everybody, It's that time of year again- a little later this time around. Warm weather and no snow made October and most of November pretty weak for ice around here- except for the Sphinx- which looked fat! I have been upgrading and screwing around with the website a bit. A couple of changes: POST ORDER - you may notice now that many of the forums list posts with the NEWEST at the top; it used to have the OLDEST post at the top. So if you want to follow the entire thread, start at the bottom. Not all forums have this- e.g.

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Anne and I went up to Flanders on Saturday... We climbed champagne sherbet which was quite nice... The lower section was a little thin but the rest was great.. Wet with thunker sticks! Killer pillar is just touching down and looks do-able but spice-a-licous.. Big Sleep is forming up nicely and from what I could see, bobo like was about ready.... Beautiful sunny day in Hyalite! :lol:

I spent a cold day up at Twin Falls. Things looked mostly like they did about three weeks ago. Hopefully the cold weather will stick around this time. The road was in awesome shape - packed snow the whole way with very little washboard.

Dano and I got up to Hyalite a few days ago and found some pretty good ice to climb. Sunday we went up the Flanders Drainage and climbed what we believed to be what [i]Big Sky Ice [/i]calls Wedgy. It was an easy 50 foot thin flow of good ice. Monday we headed up to have a look at Overlook mountain and the Monkey's Ass Wall. It appeared to be a bit sketchy so we headed over to Disco Party and G-Spot. Disco Party was thin with marginal pro but nonetheless climbable.

Interesting site, good on ya for posting a route guide to Hyalite. Having not climbed there this gives some idea of what awaits.