Fang

After much inspection from the ground, I thought it was time I had a closer look. The Fang saw it's first (?!) ascent of the year. The base cone was it's usual gearless horror-fest, 1 screw in the base of the pillar 50' up the cone, then a ton of cleaning as I fought my way under the overhanging curtain. Along the way I passed the obvious 2" crack seperating the free-standing pillar. Almost blew out my arm trying to hack a hole in the curtain to pull the final airy, overhanging moves. The top-out was laden with 3.5' of powder, alota work to find a few final placements to hit the trees. Virgin ice, incredible line, was quite the route...solid WI5+ conditions.

Were you up there on Sunday morning?

Nice work Rob!
Hopefully we will see you up there this weekend.

Actually, Jack Roberts lead it about 2 weeks ago....it was probably WI6 then. It was in WI 5 condition on Saturday the 9th..

Mike Willig wrote:Actually, Jack Roberts lead it about 2 weeks ago....it was probably WI6 then. It was in WI 5 condition on Saturday the 9th..

Mike ripped that thing up saturday too. I think it has seen a few sends so far.
Can someone tell me how to insert a photo??
I have a few nice ones.

SAL wrote:Can someone tell me how to insert a photo?? I have a few nice ones.

SAL, it's actually really easy:
1. Save the photo to your personal MP photo album
2. When it is saved, you will see an MP id number displayed under the photo
3. In your reply, include the text:
img=ID#
where ID# is that number you got from step 2.
AND, you have to enclose it in the sideways carrot/arrow things shown on the , and . keys (I can't put either those characters or the whole thing, or it'll just show:

BOOYA! FANG CONDITIONS ON 2-8-08

Thanks Avery for the quick tutorial.
Sal

Here is a picture of someone that I took a picture of on 02/10.

What a rad climb.
The seventh Tenticle is touching the ground aswell. You can climb it as a pure ice climb currently.
It is about 12in thick on the ground where it touches down.

mattb19 wrote:Here is a picture of someone that I took a picture of on 02/10.

Matt -- that's Sam Lightner Jr. ~ another pic...

N'ICE pic SAL...get on it guys..!!

The line I took, which was center and right, seemed like 5+... maybe 5. It would have been a 5 on the Candian scale (no offense, Greenies). It looked like at least one other party had been up that side by the screw holes (1 set in the obvious stops). ITs not banged out at all, like virgin sticks and hooks most of the way, and the fracture is healed deep inside. The rest in the curtain is, well, what keeps it from jumping up to its original hard grade... and the fact that we all use far better gear than semi-straight tools, foot fangs, and snargs.

I would say its one of the ten best ice climbs Ive done. Also, its much harder (at the moment) than Spear of Fear.

Thanks Kirra for the foto... I"ve seen your posts on here and wish I'd been below to meet you.
Sam