tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52012314665866822952024-03-13T04:57:56.765-06:00Idaho AlpineRalph S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17411950699204488079noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201231466586682295.post-30734405436882685812015-11-13T11:26:00.001-07:002015-11-13T11:26:21.067-07:00Mores Summit Conditions.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Got restless and decided to tour up towards Sunset L.O. There's about 6-7" of snow on the road up to the lookout. Not enough to ski, but plenty to tour. </div>
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The parking lot is also getting worked on and looks like it will be double for snowmobile parking. I was also surprised that there were two snomachiners leaving the summit lot and there were tracks up the Pilots road.</div>
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Bob Jahn and I had planned this trip for quite awhile and then waited to pull the trigger on going until the forecast was good for maximum climbing. This was important since I had read trip reports from people that were in their tent for a good portion of the time they were there. The weather can be fickle and hard to predict how the storms from the coast will hit the Bugaboos.</div>
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The first night we stayed at the Boulders campground. We got up the next morning and decided to climb the Eastpost Spire and traverse down to check out the camping at Applebee Dome. This was a moderate (5.6) climb, but had great position over the valley as we traversed the ridge to the summit. We descended to the campground and packed up for the move to Applebee Dome. It is a very nice set up for staying awhile. It has water via spigot, clean bathrooms, and plenty of space. We selected a site near the approach for the Crescent Spire. We climbed a few pitches on great rock. We made it up the Crescent Towers and back before it was even near time for dinner! I had sprained my ankle on the hike into the Bugs and it wasn't letting up. I was dreading anything with a long approach. We wanted to hit Bugaboo Spire the next day. I was happy since it was fairly close. We soloed up the Kain Route and hurried back down due to thunder and lighting. Once we reached the col, it was not as bad. Bob wanted to see the East Creek bivy site below the Beckey/Chouinard. We trudged across the glacier and saw it. </div>
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It seems like we didn't climb a lot, but when I read about other trips, getting 5 days out of 7 is pretty good luck with the weather. We were just on a reconnoitering trip and ended up climbing quite a bit! I am going to make a Part 2 of this post so I can put the things I wished I did/had or things I thought were good choices for this trip in preparation for next years trip to the Bugs (yes, it IS that good to make a yearly thing).</div>
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There is still some good skiing to be had out there! Bob and I threw a quick trip together to check on the Lola Lake area. I was thinking that we would just be blasting some corn on some faces, but the chutes were filled in and perfectly softening up when we got to the top! So I dropped into one and booted up another. We then ran a lap from the top of Lola point on perfect corn.<div>
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I've been training mostly for sport climbing, so I thought that my cardio would be an issue, but it wasn't. I fueled entirely on GU gels and lot's of water. I could have used some Hammer Perpetuem to fill in the lows the GU brought. Bob says that the 10 pounds of ski fat that I lost was probably the difference. Maybe. We had an Alpine start, so we were back in town with plenty of time for yard work and Birthday parties!</div>
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We went to Hell's Canyon and met up with Yoder and crew. Dave puts on the 4/20 event and there was a good turn out. Climbed up at Sleeping Monster wall. It has steep slabs that made my brain hum! Great weekend to be out. Also great for the ticks, snakes and poison ivy!<br />
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We took a trip up to Bull Trout and skied the North side and the SE side. Pretty good coverage for the first week of December. The picture above shows Copper. The top is pretty bare, but I hear that the snow on the other side is pretty awesome! Hike up and over and get back to me!<br />
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We skinned up and over and decided to ski one of the North side shots since it was stable and the snow was quite a bit better.<br />
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The turns are there if you want them and it wouldn't be a wasted trip. Get up there and get after it!!!Ralph S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17411950699204488079noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201231466586682295.post-20820958398144979852011-10-28T16:52:00.000-06:002011-10-28T16:52:07.230-06:002011 Adopt-a-Crag<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cFoNz7MtaWs/TqsxnjTaNnI/AAAAAAAABGY/_h8DSAa1I1Y/s1600/IMG_0040.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cFoNz7MtaWs/TqsxnjTaNnI/AAAAAAAABGY/_h8DSAa1I1Y/s400/IMG_0040.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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We helped to clean up the Black Cliffs this past weekend. We also helped to fix some erosion issues. There was a nice turn out. The <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Boise-Climbers-Alliance/48840437056?sk=wall">Boise Climbers Alliance</a> did a great some of organizing the event. I hope to get out this weekend and enjoy some of our work!Ralph S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17411950699204488079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201231466586682295.post-38909109001344023702011-10-10T19:47:00.000-06:002011-10-10T19:47:38.602-06:00Burnt River<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rjUQpIQSYwY/TpOYYzyKmMI/AAAAAAAABEA/chV3gHMpdPc/s1600/PA090017.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rjUQpIQSYwY/TpOYYzyKmMI/AAAAAAAABEA/chV3gHMpdPc/s640/PA090017.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As some recovery from my <a href="http://idahoalpine.blogspot.com/2011/10/borah-hidden-couloir.html">Borah trip</a>, we hit up some sweet Oregon limestone. We made the approach to the French Gulch spire. We racked up a couple of pitches before the sun warmed up a couple of hornet's nests and they wouldn't leave us alone.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We didn't climb anything harder than 5.9. Which was perfectly fine with me! We retreated down to the car and had lunch. I admired some climbs across the river on the Timewave Wall which are currently not accessible due to the river being up. This is the highest I've seen the Burnt river in October. I also spotted an apple tree chocked full of apples! I noticed this before at some of the possible miner's homesites. By the time the river is down, the apples will probably have fallen.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A lot of the climbs out here that were put up awhile ago have SMC hangers and extremely small chains to lower off of. Felco's Demise (5.8+) on the Slab is especially sketchy. The anchors are showing some rust. Every time I rap off of it, I think that I need to upgrade them to some new hangers and chains. Then, I forget and we come out again with nothing to upgrade with! With a drill, $50 in hangers and bolts I can upgrade the Slab and give the two right climbs their own anchors. Then there wouldn't be a goofy 15 foot traverse to Felco's anchor. Going a step more, a few pressure treated boards and some concrete stakes would make a couple of staging areas on the climbs up on the spire a lot nicer for the belayer. Maybe next time! I really like Burnt River and hope that others can come out to enjoy it, too. There is enough limestone to make it a true destination. It's an easy 2 hours from Boise and makes a great day trip. The best seasons are when it's too early for the snakes and ticks, and then when gets cold enough to keep the snakes and ticks at bay. It's not that bad!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Bob Boyles told me about a possible line on Borah and since I knew the face was in great shape from just being up there, Bob Jahn and I made plans to climb it this last weekend. We ended up adjusting our date since the weather models were showing the possibility of some precip moving in on Saturday. We decided on Friday. We left Boise on Thursday and made it to Rock Creek before it was dark. We organized and packed. We did it in a day from Rock Creek back to Rock Creek so we were pretty light on gear. It would have been fun to camp up at the upper cirque and maybe even have had a porter to haul our stuff out while we climbed up and over. But... that's not my style. I hate camping. I don't mind a bivy (if forced, not planned). I like the modern ethos of "Light and Fast". I might not always get the "Fast", but I am usually pretty "Light"! If there's a possibility of doing something car to car, I will give it a go.<br />
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The climbing was solid. There were only a few spots where there were bulges of steeper ice, so hence the grading (at the time/conditions) of AI3-. I had looked at Bob's route photo and was concerned about a possible rock band that looked very steep that might be blocking the route. It ended up having a sliver of ice cut through and went beautifully.<br />
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We had to rope up for the final couloir. It was a brutal pitch! Best one of the day, in my opinion! It was a runnel of super solid ice in a vertical fissure. It ended with a M3 move over a chockstone with a small nut 10 feet down for pro. I ran out of rope and brought Bob up. I stashed the rope and we climbed the last 100 feet right to the summit. I was very pleased that there were no people up there. We started down and almost made it to the treeline and the lights went out. We cut back to Rock Creek at the knob where the main trail cuts hard left. Since it was darker than a well-diggers ass, we used all the altimeter, map, compass and watch techniques not to end up going too far into the upper drainages that go into Rock Creek. We busted out almost right at the dam. We were back at the van drinking beer and shower water and eating chips with no salsa before Midnight. We took the Stanley loop back home and stopped at the Stanley Baking Co. and had breakfast. It was a great trip. Thank you to Mr. Boyles for the inspiration to get on something different!Ralph S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17411950699204488079noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201231466586682295.post-69719878582790043312011-07-28T21:24:00.000-06:002011-07-28T21:24:42.220-06:00Idaho and Nevada Classics are in the bag!I hesitate to mention anything. But anyway, I got the book "50 Classic Ski Descents of North America" from Matt Leidecker and wanted to ski all the ones in Idaho in a year. Then it just so happened that one in Nevada was only a day away. I skied Moran in WY the year before. Then I thought, "Man, this is fun! I should try to ski as many as possible!" I was thumbing through and noticed the prologue. It said that some people will use this book as a tick list. I thought that it was a cool concept. <br />
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Next year will hopefully bring some in Washington, Colorado and Wyoming. Maybe Oregon. I missed the window on Hood this year. We'll see what the snowpack does. I really would like another year like this one! I really don't know where I'll be in a year, or two, or three. I just want to take it one ski line at a time!Ralph S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17411950699204488079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201231466586682295.post-73719184772640059802011-06-19T20:46:00.000-06:002011-06-19T20:46:49.391-06:00Devil's Bedstead (East)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fo5FAqadFfw/Tf6vvXsKaXI/AAAAAAAAA5E/A9FJthSaMhg/s1600/P6170010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fo5FAqadFfw/Tf6vvXsKaXI/AAAAAAAAA5E/A9FJthSaMhg/s640/P6170010.JPG" width="608" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Devil's Bedstead (11,865')</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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The moon was out, but not enough to see without a headlamp. It was cold as we geared up to start skinning up.<br />
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After about 45 minutes the sun came up and revealed a wee bit of alpenglow. John is surveying the potential lines on the way down.<br />
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This picture could be from last year's Xmas Eve trip! I guess it IS better to be lucky than good!<br />
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Turns in the shade and trees were great. Boot-grabby zipper crust was present elsewhere. It's supposed to be warmer, so we'll see what happens to the conditions.<br />
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Here's to another great year! I hope the 1.3 people that read my ramblings have a great Christmas!Ralph S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17411950699204488079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201231466586682295.post-66424154497505216932010-12-23T22:12:00.001-07:002010-12-24T15:25:55.149-07:00Cornice CutterAfter my trip up to Copper on Tuesday and seeing the fledgling cornices hanging over my favorite lines, I remembered my old Rutschblock cord. I had made it out of 2mm cord and knotted very small nuts in the center. It was about 19 feet. Just long enough to cut a Rutschblock. G3 also makes the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000AMLAQ?ie=UTF8&tag=idahalpi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0000AMLAQ">G3 Rutschblock Cord</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=idahalpi-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0000AMLAQ" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />, which is a wire version. Neither are long enough to safely cut a cornice.<br />
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I had found a very cool product last year called the <a href="http://www.backcountrybomb.com/">Backcountry Bomb</a>. It's a device specifically made to cut cornices. I decided to make my own. Here's how:<br />
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First you will need to head down to Lowe's or Home Depot or similar. Pick up 41 feet of 1/16 uncoated wire, one bag of 1/16 swage/stopper fittings (there's X2 per bag), and two 1/2 X 1/2 PVC Tees.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then gather the following complex tools; hammer, blunt chisel (or screwdriver you don't like), pliers, duct tape.</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Feed the wire into the stopper and then put on the swage. Fit it so it makes it around the 1/2 pipe of the tee. Have about 1/4 inch of wire sticking out from the bottom of the swage.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Crimp it with the pliers to hold it in place while you get your swage tool. If you don't have a swage tool, a blunt chisel or old regular screwdriver will work.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Butt the stopper up to the wire and flatten it with the hammer. The swage should have nice, neat indentations on both sides. Repeat with the other end of the wire.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Now paint the handles a nice manly color so the cornice knows you mean business. Also it should be bright and not white since you may drop one in the snow. Duh! Push a loop through the side and poke it through the bottom and then into the other handle's bottom and out the side. Place the Tee's together and start winding the wire around as see below. DO NOT wind it like you used to wind extension cords when you were a kid and your Dad yelled at you. Instead, turn the Tee's (actually, now an H) end for end and feed the wire on. It will wind up and deploy a lot easier if you always do it that way.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It is about the size of a sandwich and weighs in at around 7 ounces. If I wasn't sure that I was going to encounter cornices, I would rather pack another turkey sandwich. If you are going to encounter cornices that you want to cut to test a slope you want to ski and you absolutely KNOW there's nobody below you, it's worth the weight.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The easiest way to use it is to probe the shit out of the top to make sure you aren't where it will fracture just by standing around. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then use a keychain carabiner to clip a loop (minus the handle) to your probe's top loop and sling it around the cornice from a distance. It's probably not a bad idea to rope up, either. Once around the cornice, start sawing. Two people works well, but one is fine and the other person can manage the belay (if used). Drop the cornice and observe what the slope does. If you drop a 900 pound cornice down a chute and nothing happens, it's pretty safe to say that you can ski it! Just don't get cut-happy and scour chutes of their snowpack before they can stabilize. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I didn't take many pictures. I was too excited by the great snow!</div>Ralph S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17411950699204488079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201231466586682295.post-27093649226197046412010-12-21T00:10:00.000-07:002010-12-21T00:10:27.050-07:00Dynafit mount and test run.<div>Skiing is up at Sunset. Great snow this weekend up there. It was the place to be and we met quite a few people up there. Plenty of pow for all!</div><div><br /></div><iframe width="480" height="295" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/uzQ-caWUPOw?fs=1" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-16581227-2']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();</script>Ralph S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17411950699204488079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201231466586682295.post-18844462154448675852010-12-17T18:06:00.000-07:002010-12-17T18:06:21.285-07:00New Book...I love to read! Tim Ferriss had written a book called "The Four-Hour Workweek" and I liked it a lot. I was not surprised he followed it up with another book about a nonconventional approach to a conventional method. He is a fitness freak and basically made himself a guinea pig for some wild experiments! Here is his new book:<br />
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People may scoff and he has his critics, but a lot of what he has done in the realm of "body hacking" is backed by proof. I don't mind working hard, but I don't like wasting my time! Check the book out. You won't be disappointed! <br />
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Sorry to throw a promotional up on here, but I am stoked about this book! I promise I will be skiing the backcountry this weekend and not reading!Ralph S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17411950699204488079noreply@blogger.com0