Alpinism thread?
Here in NY hoping winter comes soon. Anyone on /out/ consider themselves an alpine climber?
>>649973
Seen any conditions reports on trap dike or north face of Gothics?
I used the dacks as a training ground for bigger stuff out in the PNW (Baker, Rainier, shucksan, etc)
>>649973
I had a friend tell me a few weeks ago that the trap dike was thin but doable. That was before the warmup though.
To be honest I bet both are an utter scratch fest right now.
Mind telling me what dacks routes in particular ended up being good training ground? Thanks
>>649987
If you want long slow cardio burn for endurance, hump it out to Marcy and make a run at the great colouir or some of the ice routes on the back side facing feldspar etc. Also just simply summitting and going car to car in reasonable time is good conditioning. Climb trap dike, Colden colouir, NF Gothics (same deal as trap dike, do it light and push and try to keep car to car in less than 12hrs)
Jump over to Poke-O and climb the longer ice routes over there.
I did a 24hrs of climbing marathon w a buddy, we started at 5pm one Fri night and would climb a route (ice, so, single and multipitch) and go to another and another, all night. We started in chapel pond and worked our way down the canyon and then back, passed across the pond by first sun, drove (and warmed/rested) up to cascade pass climbed our way down that. Went to north face pitch off Mtn. Climbed as much as we could, finished the day at 5pm sat totally gassed, and went home and slept. Good mock "summit" day in a big Mtn. Lots of ptches. Brutal brutal cold temps (all night we were swapping leads in our puffy jackets w mittens on) and finished at the right time not to screw our regular sleep schedule. And close enough to a vehicle if it was just too much we could bail/change socks/layers etc.
I used to live in NY. If you guys ever get some snow and it starts melting... There's a good place for ice climbing here:
41.727599, -74.301443
It's a nice, short hike and you can easily get to the top of the falls.
Do a search for 'stony kill falls ice' to see some pictures. Some years it is quite good for ice climbing.
>Alpinism
I don't have it myself but I could see how it would hard to go /out/ and have to cover everything up.
>>650089
kek
>>650089
bravo
Alpine climbing is the bees knees. Nothing quite like snow, ice, and rock climbing all wrapped up in one.
About halfway up the NW Face of Apache in the Indian Peaks.
Crux pitch on an FA in RMNP. M5-ish.
Cruising up the final few feet of Dragon's Tail Couloir.
Climbing a couple hundred feet of nice alpine ice. In July.
Does it count as alpine once it's covered in snow?
The Elk Range in mid-May, taken from the Bells Traverse.
Alpine style refers to mountaineering in a self-sufficient manner, thereby carrying all of one's food, shelter, equipment, etc. as one climbs, as opposed to expedition style (or siege style) mountaineering which involves setting up a fixed line of stocked camps on the mountain which can be accessed at one's leisure.
