Tim Taylor and i headed out to King Creek both days to just play around and get solid. it was good. the first day i lead the Scotch Gully and wanted to die half way up it was all i could do to keep my head under control and not freak out and fall. we ran a few laps up it doiing a differnt variation every time to work on differnt mixed moves and hard ices moves and whatever. we then moved over to the next flow to the right and tim lead a line and we did laps till we couldn't any more and went home. towards the end we switched to some really interesting mixed problems and had a little fun with that. the next day we them oved onto the big flow and tim lead it and then i ended up leading it too and we practiced soem multi pitchwith screw anchors. it was a really good learning experience. the ice in king creek was good. can't really complaine that is for sure. there may, be some ice being climbed saturday Feb. 17 so let me know if anyone is interested.
jason
Sunday, February 11, 2007
February 4, 2007
Tim Taylor and i headed out for a night climb at the junk yards at 11:30 pm and had an amazing little night climb. the ice was particualrly great but for my first night climb, thus my first night lead it was really good. so two little piches, jsut over one and a really nice walk off it was a good warm up for a weekend of ice.
jason
jason
Saturday, February 3, 2007
February 3, 2007
Went ice climbing at Heart Creek today with Ian Beckett. we never even saw the falls the water was poring down pretty good and there was a pool before we could get to it that would have meant getting wet jsut to have a look so figured that it would not be worth it. the seeps were rather fat. the one on the left was very low angle and we never bothered with it and the one on the right was our best option so we took it. it had so steep stuff but wasn't serious. the ice was terrible. Brittle like all get out, not to mention the rotten and wet ice which made protecting rather difficult. to top rope the high part it took two ropes tied together to reach to the creek. my conclusion to the day is that vipers are seeming to be pretty sweet tools. i do beleive that they beat out the fusions. they feel quite nice to swing and hold on to and leashes are a cool thing. and viper leases that if you don't want them they are not in the way waving around really sweet. was jsut good to get out. so i dunno if anyone reads this but contact me if you are wanting tio get out to do anything.
jason
jason
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