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20080525 Icehouse Canyon

Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 10:02 am
by He219
Fist day of Summer in Icehouse Canyon (with TDR):
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Timber Mtn. in the back
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Sugarloaf Peak in the back, heading up Chapman Trail
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Cedar Glen, here Ricehouse started to look more like Soviet North Korea
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Attempted to head up Telegraph SW face, but the snow was uncompacted and slippery wet, we turn around to find something else worthy to do ..
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Looking over towards Fir Draw/Falling Rock Canyon
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Taco found an interesting incect in the snow ..
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Don't know what it was, but then it jumped/flew away ..
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We head up what we thought was Falling Rock Canyon to get to Sugarloaf peak ..
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More interesting insects ..
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Things getting more intersting, never been here before ..
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Looking as Sugarloaf, turns out we undershot and took Fir Draw instead ..
We head down Falling Rock Canyon, visibility was poor.
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Found a nice waterspout from inside a rock.
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Picture taking a picture chaos ..

Re: 20080525 Icehouse Canyon

Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 12:35 pm
by Taco
m0re peekchurz

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Columbine

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Telegraph SW Ridge, with a tiny bit of WF.

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Bonsai

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Crasula?

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Fritz

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Nice rock nearer the bottom of Falling Rock Canyon

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I hate to say it, but that's cool grafitti.

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Mixed climbing crag from winter

Re: 20080525 Icehouse Canyon

Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 12:54 pm
by Tim
Cool pics, guys. I've been meaning to go up FRC but can't do any 3rd class due to a messed up wrist. Goddamn I hate injuries.

Is this in Fir Draw? Were you able to go all the way to the top? This looks like fun:

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Re: 20080525 Icehouse Canyon

Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 12:57 pm
by Taco
We hit a small sorta-saddle up on the ridge between Fir Draw and FRC (as we were on the Fir Draw side), and were debating to the location of Sugarloaf's summit. I led us to the wrong peak! So, we descended and headed to beer-and-food-land (Baldy Lodge). We did not continue to the summit of either Ontario or Sugarloaf.

Myself climbing on that section of buttress was a bad idea. I would've felt better in rock shoes, and placing pro, but it wasn't the safest scramble. Gonna hit that area up in the very near future though. There is good rock! Just gotta stay away from the fractured stuff.

Re: 20080525 Icehouse Canyon

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 4:43 pm
by Rob
Great close-up photos of the snow bug!

Re: 20080525 Icehouse Canyon

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 5:27 pm
by FIGHT ON
you climbing people are nutso. I just don't get it. yer gonna die dude. Like fall down and go boom? hello? pretty cool pics though.

Re: 20080525 Icehouse Canyon

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 6:49 pm
by Taco
I guess it ain't for everyone.

I'm still young. I don't see life till I can see the possibility of losing it. Something like that. I like feeling in control of my life, even if it's just for a short time, and over something that has little bearing on my everyday life (unless I miss). Climbing makes me feel more alive than nearly any other activity, and makes me cherish life much more than just going through day to day life with no danger involved.

Re: 20080525 Icehouse Canyon

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 9:47 pm
by HikeUp
ClimbUp dude.

Re: 20080525 Icehouse Canyon

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 10:40 pm
by Tim
Dean Potter puts it nicely:
It was at times like this, full of calm and terror, Potter said, that he felt most connected to himself and his surroundings.

“When there’s a death consequence, when you are doing things that if you mess up you die, I like the way it causes my senses to peak,” Potter said. “I can see more clearly. You can think much faster. You hear at a different level. Your foot contact on the line is accentuated. Your sense of balance is heightened. I don’t seem to feel that very often meditating.”
Have you ever been close to being in a car accident and had that brief moment of terror where all your senses go full alert? That's what it is like, except on a climb this goes on for minutes or hours at a time or however long it takes to top out. The whole thing is really stressful, yet strangely attractive.

Re: 20080525 Icehouse Canyon

Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 12:52 am
by Taco
Yup. Exactly.

I'm sure some folks think it's reckless. I hope they someday are able to stop caring so much about what others think of them, and just "go".

Re: 20080525 Icehouse Canyon

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 1:30 pm
by Taco
VIDEO IS UP