This is not a parody.









[Edited on May 22, 2007 at 7:03 PM. Reason : Sorry dial-up and low res. ]

5/22/2007 7:03:06 PM

NTLB!

5/23/2007 10:45:41 PM

GTFO

5/23/2007 10:55:03 PM

k.

5/23/2007 10:59:14 PM

What mtns are those?

5/23/2007 11:41:03 PM

wow

plz to be no locking

5/24/2007 1:09:18 AM

^^
1. K2
2. Nanga Parbat
3. Mt. McKinley / Denali
4. The Matterhorn

[Edited on May 24, 2007 at 9:38 PM. Reason : Carets]

5/24/2007 9:38:03 PM

Grand Teton


Everest


Kanchenjunga


Dhaulagiri I


Dzongla

5/24/2007 10:14:56 PM

I think this would be a good place to ask about an upcoming trip to Colorado Im planning

Myself and one or two friends are going to be hiking the four passes loop in the Maroon Bells - Snowmass wilderness area
It should be just outside of Aspen

If anyone has any info on the trail or even the drive out to Colorado Id love some advice . . . . . .

5/25/2007 5:41:45 PM

6/3/2007 8:06:41 PM

Oh, we back!

8/3/2013 8:53:02 PM

climbing this thang tomorrow:

http://mountainproject.com/v/the-glass-menagerie/105980466

8/3/2013 9:44:50 PM

I came very close to falling off Looking Glass before. I was not climbing it. I hiked the trail to the top and then saw how far I could walk down the face. Got in a pickle. Rocks were wet on the way back up. I was lucky. It was dumb.

8/4/2013 12:21:51 PM

May not be a parody of Mtn climbing. Could be a parody of embedding images.

8/4/2013 2:22:37 PM

Valid point, but when I started this thread, I was not premium, so I could hardly use HTML and the width=100% option.

Now it is not useful, since the page is already broken.

There was / is a thread called "ANYTHING MOUNTAIN BIKING".

If this makes Page 2 (unlikely), I will correct.

8/4/2013 3:05:33 PM

Damn, mad respect adultswim. Did you send?

That looks super hard, sustained, and committing. One of the harder multi-pitch routes on the east coast???

Also, wasn't it hot and humid as shit for this?

[Edited on August 4, 2013 at 4:00 PM. Reason : [user]]

8/4/2013 3:59:53 PM

^
we got to the 4th pitch, got stuck behind some people, and bailed. def wasn't planning on sending it clean this time. most people aid climb it. i did work out a lot of the free beta for the 12d pitch. pretty scary falling on old-ass bolts 150 ft in the air

Quote :

"Also, wasn't it hot and humid as shit for this?"

yes. yes it was but there were still 2 other parties on the same line. never seen looking glass so crowded.

[Edited on August 4, 2013 at 10:04 PM. Reason : .]

8/4/2013 10:01:45 PM

Do people normally haul on the G.M.? (I've never climbed Looking Glass).

Seems like if it is only 7 pitches (C2) the strategy would be to fix the 1st couple of pitches and then fire the whole thing the next day (or just do it in one push). This would be a great route to get your aid down, I imagine doing it in less than 8 hrs would be good practice for Nose in a Day.

8/5/2013 10:17:24 PM

Quote :

"Do people normally haul on the G.M.? (I've never climbed Looking Glass). Seems like if it is only 7 pitches (C2) the strategy would be to fix the 1st couple of pitches and then fire the whole thing the next day (or just do it in one push). This would be a great route to get your aid down, I imagine doing it in less than 8 hrs would be good practice for Nose in a Day."

Not sure. The two other parties had fixed lines (one on p2, one on p6). The p2 party was hauling.

We were trying to do it in a day, but we got there too late to get in front of the p2 party. Next time we'll camp out the night before.

Training for this: http://mountainproject.com/v/west-face/106065890

8/6/2013 8:39:17 AM

I already posted this in the backpacking thread but it really belongs bere. I climbed Mt. Rainier back in early June. It was a pretty epic time with extremely high winds. Took quite the beating from ice and pumice above 12,500'. Had to perform a few arrests due to winds blowing myself or another team member off our feet.


Ingraham Flats


View from Camp Muir




Sunrise at high break


The only summit pic I could get before my phone died.

I'm either going to climb Ecuador volcanos next year or climb in Patagonia. I still haven't made up my mind.

[Edited on August 6, 2013 at 2:52 PM. Reason : ]

8/6/2013 2:49:38 PM

^
fucking awesome, man. i'm not much of a mountaineer, but i'd love to have that view of the clouds at least once

8/6/2013 6:58:36 PM

[Edited on August 6, 2013 at 7:59 PM. Reason : fuck it ill do it later]

8/6/2013 7:46:44 PM

The West Face? Cool.

Also when you're in the Valley could you rope-gun Rostrum+Astroman for me (what's sad is I think I could lead all of Rostrum but I don't have any strong partners )?

Here's the Leaning Tower from a couple months ago:

We fixed the first two pitches before this picture was taken. Since the Leaning Tower is so overhanging when you start jugging the ropes you swing out 60 feet from the wall. There's a 400 ft drop right off that ledge, scary!

8/6/2013 9:09:21 PM

Man, actually the Rostrum might be a better choice for us than the West Face. We're looking for something awesome that we can reasonably free in a day. Maybe we'll try to do both.

That's a sweet pic of the Leaning Tower. Ominous as hell! I have a much greater respect for aid climbing after last week. It's a god damn substantial amount of effort, and I'm sore in areas I've never been sore before.

8/6/2013 9:23:30 PM

Finally made it down to Ecuador earlier this year to do some climbing but just now got some good pictures back from a fellow climber. We were turned back by a storm on Cayambe but I was able to top out on Antisana and Cotopaxi.

7/17/2015 9:34:18 AM

!Nice!

Were those areas crowded at all?

7/17/2015 9:44:11 AM

No, not crowded at all. I might have seen 20 people at the huts on Cayambe, but the weather sucked so I only saw 2 other guys on the mountain itself. Antisana (the mountain behind me in the 3rd picture) was completely deserted. There was one other team of about 5 people on the whole mountain. Cotopaxi is a little more heavily trafficked with maybe 5 teams on it the day we climbed. But it's huge so 5 teams (~40 people) was not bad at all.

7/17/2015 10:00:35 AM