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Location: NV : Mt. Charleston : Mount Charleston Ice : Vegas Hose Monster (WI5)
By: alpinglow When: Dec 5, 2006 | view comment >> |
Comments: FYI- This is glory conditions, not current.
Yeah, Ry, come on down and show me how its done Playboy! You can sleep with my basset hounds
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Location: NV : Mt. Charleston : Mount Charleston Ice : Vegas Hose Monster (WI5)
By: alpinglow When: Dec 1, 2006 | view comment >> |
Comments: That photo is the best internet porn I've seen in a looooooooooooong time.
Nooch
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Location: NV : Red Rock : Icebox Canyon : Frigid Air Buttress : Frigid Air Buttress (5.9)
By: alpinglow When: Nov 27, 2006 | view comment >> |
Comments: Aged with grace...proudest comment ever. Congrats to all of us for not roughing her up.
Climbed this today in 5 stretchers, no simul climbing. Rack standard with extra 2 and 3 old BD cam, no 4.
Rappelled Hot point not Burlesque.
Wonderful outing...full value for the grade. Tone down Steck/Salathe and morph it with East Butt of Middle Cathedral was my thought as I climbed.
Superb route. Kudos to FA team.
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Location: NV : Mt. Charleston : The Hood : The Compton Cave
By: alpinglow When: Sep 17, 2006 | view comment >> |
Comments: equipped almost certainly means "chipped" around these parts.
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Location: NV : Red Rock : Icebox Canyon : Necromancer Wall : Sensuous Mortician (5.9)
By: alpinglow When: Sep 3, 2006 | view comment >> |
Comments: SPECTACULAR!!!!
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Location: NV : Red Rock : Mt. Wilson : Aeolian Wall : Resolution Arete (5.10 A1)
By: alpinglow When: Mar 31, 2006 | view comment >> |
Comments: I vastly underestimated the hike off. My suggestion for a rack.
Single Tiny cams, doubles from older version BD .5 to 3, one old 4 camalot. I placed no stoppers, but that doesn't mean squat.
Good times...US classic, imho.
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Location: CO : CO Ice & Mixed : RMNP - Mixed/Ice : Wild Basin : Hidden Falls
By: alpinglow When: Feb 26, 2006 | view comment >> |
Comments: 2/26/06
Three fun little flows are left of the usual far left WI2. 30-40 feet? The far left line was rowdy, and other two were virgin. Unreal to get freshies at Hidden Falls.
The Dangler is in, and is visible at the far right of the beta photo marked 2/19. Approach directly via the R facing corner and wide crack above. M6? I thought it was really fun.
More exciting was the fresh ice...
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : RMNP - Rock : Long's Peak : The Diamond
By: alpinglow When: Sep 6, 2005 | view comment >> |
Comments: Climbing ranger called me today at work (Trail Ridge Outfitters) and told me the cleanup had been cancelled, and asked me to take down all signs.
Cheers,Brent
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Location: CO : Estes Park Valley : Lumpy Ridge : The Bookend : Blood Feud (5.12c)
By: alpinglow When: Sep 1, 2005 | view comment >> |
Comments: Hate to say it ....but Blood Gauge looks good...
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Location: CO : Lyons : St. Vrain Canyons : South Fork of St. Vrain Can...
By: alpinglow When: Jun 24, 2005 | view comment >> |
Comments: Is this most recent AC comment from Alvino or what?
I've never known Bernard to fart too much, maybe the case is different with Mr. Meyer, but I don't know him...or does that fancy word mean something else?
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Location: CO : Gunnison : Black Canyon of the Gunniso... : North Chasm View Wall : The Hallucinogen Wall (5.10 A3+ R)
By: alpinglow When: May 1, 2005 | view comment >> |
Comments: Hey Phil and Bob,
You guys plucked too many gems. The young kids are bored and irreverant...lol.
Speed climbing is nothing new. Didnt Royal and T. Frost race up the Sentinal way back when to break the record set the day before?
My view is how are you suppossed to climb fast on the big stuff, when the chips are down, if you don't practice a little? I've never taken a watch with me on any climb. That's just my schtick, I try as hard as I can, and inshallah, im off before I run out of glauco... more >>
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Location: CO : Gunnison : Black Canyon of the Gunniso... : North Chasm View Wall : The Hallucinogen Wall (5.10 A3+ R)
By: alpinglow When: Apr 26, 2005 | view comment >> |
Comments: Cheers Alan,
Nice send. A buddy and I put a watchless push on this back in college, in our assumption, just a touch past 24.
Haven't heard of anyone else doing it in a day, but these days there are too many hard dudes to say.
Again, nice send.
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : RMNP - Rock : Long's Peak : The Diamond
By: alpinglow When: Oct 5, 2004 | view comment >> |
Comments: Curious if anyone has climbed the Enos Mills wall in the last decade? Didn't Ken Sauls and Johny Allen climb it last winter?
Do you still need iron for the top? Isn't there a bivi ledge on it?
Can consult my guidebook, just thought maybe someone had some first hand beta.
Cheers
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Location: CO : Gunnison : Black Canyon of the Gunniso... : North Chasm View Wall : Leisure Climb (5.9)
By: alpinglow When: Aug 25, 2004 | view comment >> |
Comments: While I was soloing and yarding that little chockstone in that roof I remember thinking I would rather go allin with KJ offsuit than do this route again.
A worthwhile adventure slog, but not much else.
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : RMNP - Rock : Ypsilon Mountain : Blitzen Ridge (5.4)
By: alpinglow When: Jul 6, 2004 | view comment >> |
Comments: Just climbed this for the first time a few days ago, hopefully won't be the last. What a wonderful day. All of the above comments are true.
That ridge just didn't stop. Great vistas of the Y couloir, and that big cornice!
A great alpine outing in RMNP with all the fixins.
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Location: CO : Fort Collins : Horsetooth Reservoir : Rotary Park : Mental Block : Mental X (V5)
By: alpinglow When: Jun 27, 2004 | view comment >> |
Comments: Sorry about the "e" angst. Just kind of found this funny. I really am a nicer dude in person. Too easy to be an ass online.
Maybe this is the last great problem to fall at Horsetooth and is a worthy addition.
Thank you all for the guidance,
Jedi pimp in training, Brent
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Location: CO : Grand Junction area : Colorado National Monument : Sentinel Spire : Fast Draw (5.10)
By: alpinglow When: Apr 5, 2004 | view comment >> |
Comments: Nice that you could give this route a grade while "on rappel". While the bolts do seem extraneous (sp?,sry) with modern gear, maybe you should just give Layton a little jingle on the phone and tell him how light he is. Different eras, different tactics.
A fun climb, not overly classic, but a cool summit. Have done it both ways on first pitch, prefer to traverse left.
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Location: CO : Gunnison : Black Canyon of the Gunniso... : North Chasm View Wall
By: alpinglow When: Mar 3, 2004 | view comment >> |
Comments: beta for Air Voyage...
climb up slab,continue up much wide and thin, when crack ends move left and climb really wide then crawl right...hopefully on rim before dark
gear to 2 inches
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Location: CO : Gunnison : Taylor Canyon : First Buttress : The Upper Wall : Christine's Dream (5.12)
By: alpinglow When: Feb 19, 2004 | view comment >> |
Comments: Hey Phil, its Brent.
I didn't know you put this up, or how long ago. Nice send.
I have climbed it a handful of times, although not onsight. IMHO, Country Club is a touch harder.
I have always heard that Question of Balance was 10d. It took me like 5 tries to send the straight up version, not moving left. 5 tries is an awful lot for a 5.10 route for me.
I think the high part of Christine's is more sustained, but never as heady.
Everything I have ever climbed in Taylor is solid to sand... more >>
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Location: CO : CO Ice & Mixed : Vail Ice : Spiral Staircase area : Secret Probation (WI5 M6-7)
By: alpinglow When: Jan 31, 2004 | view comment >> |
Comments: Craig's day has a good bit of driving in it too, doesn't he live in FC?
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Location: CO : CO Ice & Mixed : Blue Mesa (near Gunnison)
By: alpinglow When: Jan 20, 2004 | view comment >> |
Comments: If you drive just a bit past the private property you come to a drainage that meets the highway. I have hiked this all the way to Curecanti Needle. Some crags back there, public access to the ice, and a long slog to Curecanti.
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Location: CO : Estes Park Valley : Lumpy Ridge : Twin Owls : The Cavity (5.9 C3+)
By: alpinglow When: Jan 1, 2004 | view comment >> |
Comments: Clean? WOW, nice work Senor Paco.
You haul a crash pad up there?
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Location: CO : CO Ice & Mixed : RMNP - Mixed/Ice : Emerald Lake / Tyndall Gorg... : Nymph Lake : Get a File (WI5- M7-)
By: alpinglow When: Dec 24, 2003 | view comment >> |
Comments: Bernard
I TR'd this a few times 2 seasons ago, and lead it that same day. No ice that day, just really wet.
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Location: CO : Estes Park Valley : CO Hwy 7 & Tributaries : The Ironclads : Punk Rock : Tuition Dollars at Work (5.11c)
By: alpinglow When: Jun 9, 2003 | view comment >> |
Comments: Needs a second bolt at the top. I don't remember Shawn being there that day.
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Location: CO : Estes Park Valley : Big Thompson Canyon
By: alpinglow When: Jun 2, 2003 | view comment >> |
Comments: Mr. Allen
I can appreciate your consternation for developing these routes, and then seeing them published as something else. However....your tone and candor do not bely the ever humble dude you are trying to come across as. Have you ever met Mr. Gillett? He, IMHO, is a very reticent and active hardman across the Front Range. I have never known him to self aggrandize or promote that which is not true. I'm sure he nosed around for FA beta about this stuff. Like he said, if it really mattere... more >>
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