Hyalite Canyon Ice Conditions

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Dribbles of this and that!

Submitted by Brumbrown on Sun, 11/25/2012 - 18:37
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 Had an amazing day today with Rusty Willis! We climbed Silken Falls (which was in good but slightly thin conditions) and headed up the gully to do The Climb Above the Dribbles. As we were heading up the drainage I was remembering a post from JoJo a few years back where Guy suggested renaming The Climb Above to Alex in Wonderland! Having spent a good number of days doing different routes around Alex in Wonderland I would agree that it is quite the special place and would like to second Guy and JoJo's idea of renaming it! Thoughts?

Thanksgiving Eve Hyalite Observations

Submitted by JoJo on Wed, 11/21/2012 - 18:34
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Between rain squalls, I went for a walk in Hyalite today, Thanksgiving eve. I walked the entire Unnamed Wall from "Elevator Shaft" to "Magically Delicious" and then went up to "G1". Here is what I found and think of what I saw. Use my comments with caution. In this weather… all bets are off.

Unnamed Wall:
"Elevator Shaft" was climbed three days ago but it's definitely not climbable now. As a higher volume flow it will degrade more quickly than most. "The Fat One" gets a lot of sun and is feeling the pain courtesy of global warming. It's out.

G1 current conditions

Submitted by McAlpine on Thu, 11/15/2012 - 08:56
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Jeff and I bumped into Conrad and Tim on G1 on Monday. This is what she looked like. When we left it was a shower curtain of 'drips' so I'm sure she grew quite a bit this week. Upper and lower greensleeves did not appear to be in but the hangover and G2 were looking pretty good.The black magic area and the unamed wall were still all rock from what I could see.

With no ice in sight

Submitted by JoJo on Sun, 11/04/2012 - 19:20
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Scottish Cliff Work on this cliff started in 2010 when Rusty Willis, Martin Zabaleta and some dude from Butte named Phil and I did the first cleaning of loose rock and established a number of anchors. Being low angle and highly featured, the cliff offers mixed climbing more like you might find on a mountaineering route than the usual steep M route. Despite its proximity to G1 and the easy grades, it failed to catch on due to the difficulty finding the anchors for top roping. After several more efforts at cleaning, I finally got around to bolting some lines to encourage more activity.

Ice Forming

Submitted by Mark Staples on Fri, 10/19/2012 - 20:24
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Today Eric Knoff and I installed the weather station on top of Flanders Mountain.  As we hiked up the Flanders Drainage we could see some ice building on Champagne which really surprised me.  Other climbs had icicles forming.  In the main canyon, it looked like there was quite a bit of ice on Twin Falls.  We couldn't tell how thin it was.  Overall, things have been much colder than I would have guessed.  Just below the weather station is a small lake in a hanging valley.  This small lake was already completely frozen.

Palasades, Alpha and Omega

Submitted by alpinebumm on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 16:16
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Climbed Palisades the other day, she was in good sticky shape, check her out before she rotts. Alpha and Omega are in GREAT shape! The pillar between the two was touching down, I don't think it was Iota. Does anyone if it touches often? We didn't think it was regular forming, great steep pillar a bit harder then Omega any info?