Ollestad Canyon/Ontario Peak 3-16-11

Dave G · Post by **Dave G** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 1:42 pm

Taco, Norma and I climbed Ollestad Canyon to Ontario Peak. The current conditions yielded only about 1K' of good cramponing.
Pix: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21042415@N ... 163073171/

Post by **Taco** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 1:54 pm

Und meine album: http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y222/T ... 20Ontario/

MAD SiCk tyte FA dyno bouldering moves in Dave's album right there.

Post by **Hikin_Jim** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 1:55 pm

Dang, the freakin' snow has really melted.

Did you guys walk out via Icehouse?

HJ

Post by **Taco** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 1:58 pm

He219 · Post by **He219** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 3:01 pm

Nice job y'all! Well done ..

Johnny Bronson · Post by **Johnny Bronson** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:14 pm

Awesome shots yall!

Dyno viking where is your dyno viking hat!?!!

everyday · Post by **everyday** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:47 pm

Great pics. I gotta get out in the snow more next season

Post by **Taco** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:19 pm

Johnny Bronson wrote: ↑Awesome shots yall!

Dyno viking where is your dyno viking hat!?!!

Had I known such epic first ascent alpine death squad sidepull layback sick dawg bro dyno gnar bomb tight Tony Hawk face-eating soul-crushing underhanging hot-pink-pointing moves were in my future, I would've packed it.

norma r · Post by **norma r** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 7:38 am

Thought i was going for a hike of Ollestad Canyon. Turned out we ascended Pick on Norma Canyon. Fun day, kinda.

First 1k was a lot of this

Eventually we found this

Dave topping out and being warmed by the first sunlight we felt after 6 hrs of climbing

I was excited to traverse the west ridge of Ontario that i've always looked at and found it a fun little scramble from bump to bump

Taco left no class 3 unclimbed

and no consideration to form

Summit mugged

Gamma rayed

and descending FRC without incident (not for this tree it appears)

rest of my pix are here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/ryan.norma ... Canyon2011#

TracieB · Post by **TracieB** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:22 am

Looks like fun - 'cept for that first 1K. Great pix!

Dave G · Post by **Dave G** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:43 am

norma r wrote: ↑Thought i was going for a hike of Ollestad Canyon. Turned out we ascended Pick on Norma Canyon.

You sure about that? Cuz I'm certain that the chute we were in was called "Let's Leave Dave Waiting on a Windy Summit for an Hour and a Half Canyon".

Either way, I think we both got off-route somewhere.

If the teasing got out of hand, I blame Taco--that boy's a troublemaker.

lilbitmo · Post by **lilbitmo** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:06 pm

Nice work, Norma, Dave and Taco love that canyon, fun winter ascent.

All the pictures are assume - miss hitting the slopes with you guys, time for another crazy group hike

Sam Page · Post by **Sam Page** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 11:30 am

It's about time Taco got up there. If it weren't for the discouraging approach, that route would be a local classic. Now it's just a loco classic.