Wisconsin Ice Conditions?
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G Dodge? Lone Rock? Wyalusing? Anything? |
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I was at Wyalusing a week and a half ago with a friend and the main flow didn't have anywhere near enough ice to go. We hiked up the tracks a few hundred yards and messed around on a small 20 foot flow that was covered since we were already there, but it certainly wouldn't be worth driving up just for that. From the road, the quarry didn't look like it had much on it either. |
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Hey Nick: |
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What a bummer... Vegas has ice. Come out here. |
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Oh ya... making tentative plans for Red Rocks over spring break coming up.... very end of March and start of April. Ice in Vegas? Up on Charleston? |
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I climbed some ice at Lone Rock about 4 weeks ago, but it was kinda thin near the top, and the week of warm temps that followed must almost certainly have killed what little ice there was. Haven't been back since. |
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Burt, yea look up Mt Charleston ice on MP, there looks to be a pretty sweet route! |
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Top roped Stephen Falls at Gov. Dodge. on Sunday the 22nd. The top of the face = no ice. The bottom of the face = no ice except for about a 2 foot wide section. The "middle" of the face actually has some half-way decent spots on it, We stopped climbing pretty early because what was on the wall was busting up pretty good. What you see in the picture is the greatest concentration of ice on the wall but that's about all there is, not enough to even put a screw in. |
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Burt, be sure to drop a line before you head to Vegas and I'll get you my number. Do you have a partner lined up? We should do some climbing while you're out here. I missed Gorny when he was here so I'd like to see some more Wisconsin folks. Rhoads, when are you coming here next? |
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Hey Andy. I will do just that and let you know when and where I will be in Vegas area climbing. Spring break week for UW is March 31st to April 8th this year and the plan is to come out for all of that week. 3 folks have committed so far.... I would love the chance to climb with you. |
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At G Dodge Stephens Falls is a no go, the other falls are ok but doable. At Lone Rock both lines are in and each have one solid line. Not anything leadable though. |
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Yesterday, I climbed with Doug H and others at Lone Rock and G-Dodge. Far as I could tell, only one of the two flows at Lone Rock was in, but this is my first season there so I might be mistaken. Stevens Falls was thin and broken up throughout, though there appeared to be a continuous line on the far right side of the wall. |
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is it safe to assume that last weeks insanely warm temps melted whatever was left at Lone Rock and G Dodge? |
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G Dodge is almost certainly all gone. Lone Rock might still have a thin but climbable column. |
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Ellen, it might be ok. LR is totally north facing and yes its been warm but its been below freezing at night, which might make it pretty good. Wyalusing probably gets too much sun though. |
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Cox Hollow/Enee Point at G Dodge is now in again. Led up both the left and right side flows today. |
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The western flow at Lone Rock was climbable last weekend. Some of the curtain has delaminated from the rock but the fat ice portion is good to go. |
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Wyalusing was nice this past wknd. |
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here's the Lone Rock fall on the river... looking good, from the air |
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Cool, that little hidden climb is nice. Did you find that up the road from the quarry? |
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Here is what the railroad tracks looked like last wknd. |