20081220 Ricehouse Canyon Snow Recon Thingy

Post by **Taco** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 5:30 pm

Just went to go check out snow conditions and possibly do some mixed climbing near Sheep Canyon. Woulda been a horrible idea. Walked into the structure that used to be a house at the very base of Sheep Canyon, with deep, cold, dry powder snow up to my crotch.

Use snowshoes if you go offtrail. I'm going to wait till things consolidate a bit before any Ice Pirate junk happens. Screw technical wading.

Cucamonga SF from Rancho

Going uptrail

Bigass crag up atop the ridge west of Fir Draw.

Winter = yay

Not fun right now

Taco

Madhouse parking lot. Ludicrous. Packed.

Weekends suck.

So... a few weeks and the mountains will be perfect, I assume.

Post by **Hikin_Jim** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 6:19 pm

Looks like that ice axe was doing you a lot of good.

Post by **Taco** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 6:25 pm

Yeah, shoulda brought some paddles and a Korean dictionary instead.

hvydrt · Post by **hvydrt** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 6:55 pm

TacoDelRio wrote:with deep, cold, dry powder snow up to my crotch.

I had the same experience today above the skihut. made it o 9000' and turned around due to constant postholing (with snow shoes)

The snow play crowd was insane. People everywhere, line of cars backed up from below the village all the way up.

Post by **Taco** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 12:35 am

That line kept going waaaaaaaaay down... Lord...

C'mon Glendora Ridge Road! 8)

EnFuego · Post by **EnFuego** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:31 pm

Taco - I imagined you looking totally different.

Definately nice crag up there though.

~EnFuego

Post by **Taco** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:16 am

I'm not a Mexican guy.

EnFuego · Post by **EnFuego** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:35 am

TacoDelRio wrote:I'm not a Mexican guy.

I didn't picture you as Mexican either. For some reason, by reading your posts, I pictured you as a short, stout, locomotive walking machine. Maybe Irish.

Post by **Taco** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:49 pm

A small part Northern Irish.

Car-bombings come naturally.

lilbitmo · Post by **lilbitmo** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 2:05 pm

And Alcohol consumption does as well, with a little blood blistered nose - you know the kind with the red scar on it

406 · Post by **406** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 2:50 pm

Nice photos. Some of us enjoy the light fluffy snow