Hyalite Archives

I went up to G1 on Saturday. The road was icy and ice at G1 was just forming and very delicate. It looked like hangover might have some climbable ice. Maybe? -Kevin :roll:

Went out with jberwald today, thinking some stuff might be sorta in. Hmm, sorta is correct. Decidely very early season funk. What ice there was didn't take pro. J and I will be waiting a few more weeks until the cold sets in. Brad

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Anyone have any news about how Dribbles is looking these days? I'd love to give it a shot this weekend. If you've climbed/seen it recently, any beta would be a great help. Thanks.

The road is getting pretty nasty in spots, but people were still making it up. I think all of the free hanging portion of the Good Looking One has fallen since the previous report.

we headed up to the twin falls area and climbed the large chimney to the north of Cleos - not a bad route. Road is fair and snow is awful.

To all late season searchers: Ted Olsen, from Bellingham, and I, a former Bozemanite, spent an incredible few days up Hyalite. Here's what we've seen (I'd post pictures but am intimidated by doing it- look for them in the next couple days maybe). Granted, these are only the ones we've visited, a few comments on those we haven't. We had an excellent time, Hyalite! Cheers goes out to Ted, Mel, and Ken, for hangin' in there this last week. Flanders Bobo like- no first pitch, upper looks great Champ.

the road driving up to hyalite is more like riding in a boat that a car. fortunately we can still drive there though. if you are willing to give your shocks a real workout, driving is definelty still doable. went up to the dribbles area and found nice ice but poor avalanche conditions. each step on the first pitch were cracking and whomping while climbing. a look accross the valley to behind maid in the mist shows an avalanche spreading the entire way accross that bowl behind maid. on the descent down avalanche gully, a deadly avalanche ripped through right as we were about to rappell.

Hoping to make one last trip to climb around second week of April. Just wondering how the road to parking area is and ice conditions. Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Route conditions in Hyalite are pretty darn good right now. We opted for a sunny afternoon on the Mummies and Scepter. However, many of the routes on unnamed wall also look great (e.g., Thrill is Gone, Good looking one, Come and get it). The Scepter, shown here, is fat as ever with excellent ice. [img]http://www.rocky.edu/~kalakayt/close1.gif[/img] [b]Scott Close on the Scepter.[/b] [img]http://www.rocky.edu/~kalakayt/close2.gif[/img] [b]Scott Close a little higher on the Scepter.[/b] The [b]Southwest Montana Climbers Coalition[/b] is holding two fundraising events in April.