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Ollestad Canyon/Ontario Peak 3-16-11
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 1:42 pm
by Dave G
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/
Re: Ollestad Canyon/Ontario Peak 3-16-11
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 1:54 pm
by Taco
Und meine album:
http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y222/T ... 20Ontario/
MAD SiCk tyte FA dyno bouldering moves in Dave's album right there.
Re: Ollestad Canyon/Ontario Peak 3-16-11
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 1:55 pm
by Hikin_Jim
Dang, the freakin' snow has really melted.
Did you guys walk out via Icehouse?
HJ
Re: Ollestad Canyon/Ontario Peak 3-16-11
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 1:58 pm
by Taco
Yup
Re: Ollestad Canyon/Ontario Peak 3-16-11
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 3:01 pm
by He219
Nice job y'all! Well done ..
Re: Ollestad Canyon/Ontario Peak 3-16-11
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:14 pm
by Johnny Bronson
Awesome shots yall!
Dyno viking where is your dyno viking hat!?!!
Re: Ollestad Canyon/Ontario Peak 3-16-11
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:47 pm
by everyday
Great pics. I gotta get out in the snow more next season
Re: Ollestad Canyon/Ontario Peak 3-16-11
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:19 pm
by Taco
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.
Re: Ollestad Canyon/Ontario Peak 3-16-11
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 7:38 am
by norma r
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#
Re: Ollestad Canyon/Ontario Peak 3-16-11
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:22 am
by TracieB
Looks like fun - 'cept for that first 1K. Great pix!
Re: Ollestad Canyon/Ontario Peak 3-16-11
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:43 am
by Dave G
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.
Re: Ollestad Canyon/Ontario Peak 3-16-11
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:06 pm
by lilbitmo
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
Re: Ollestad Canyon/Ontario Peak 3-16-11
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 11:30 am
by Sam Page
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.