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Climbing and ... Climbing => Masters of Mud -- Pinnacles => Topic started by: mungeclimber on January 09, 2012, 01:16:36 PM
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So in the event a multi night cold snap after a heavy downpour, where should we head to first to ice climb at Pinnacles?
The short fall on the creek on the drive into the East Side?
The caves on the East Side?
The dam spillway?
Don Genaros Waterfall?
Bongloadash?
Grotto next to Flume?
Short waterfall near Gameshow?
edit - added from below posts...
Condor Chimney
Great Spectacular grotto
what other viable options are there?
And no, Lava Falls will never seep enough to be anything other than mixed with a death icicle at the top.
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Rob-
have you considered running some hoses along the top of Lava?
:D
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A. Bongloadash
B. The caves on the East Side
C. Great Condor Chimmney?
Grotto next to Great Spectacular?
D. Fire place @ the Inn @ Pinnacles
Seriously, take some blue tarp and redirect the water drainage into 1 of the balconies waterchutes....
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A. Bongloadash
B. The caves on the East Side
C. Great Condor Chimmney?
Grotto next to Great Spectacular?
D. Fire place @ the Inn @ Pinnacles
Seriously, take some blue tarp and redirect the water drainage into 1 of the balconies waterchutes....
HA, can you imagine? I think that might be a tad visible from the parkinglot/giantvisitorcenter. Camo tarps?
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Rob-
have you considered running some hoses along the top of Lava?
:D
Not if Gavin keeps climbing Balconies routes.
Closures start when again? ;)
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Next Tuesday? Get some
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hrm, road will be open still, so ice is thrice as nice
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Thrice? No way:-)
I hear you, that's how I feel when its open- 70 and the gang heads to the Pinns.
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There will never be decent ice on the Balconies. They get way to much Sun.
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decent ice? LOL
I was thinking any possibility of ice anywhere, not necessarily decent. Just climbable.
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My guess for ice would be that fern chamber on the end of discovery wall- the one that is closed to climbing. But it would take some gnarly climate changes to freeze that up. Who knows, maybe we are headed that way...
I remember some ugly but possibly climbable ice along Stevens Canyon road on the way to Castle rock years ago. Anyone remember that? It had to be in the early to mid 90s.
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Yep, the road also had some wicked black ice on it.
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Yup. And was I bopping along on my way to work on my trusty olde Kz400 and get a painful reminder lesson in the adiabatic lapse rate, temperature inversions, and that yes, those signs are correct. Bridges really DO freeze before the rest of the road. Ouch.
It had been a nice sunny warm morning on top of the hill, and ice was the last thing on my mind.
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It the limestone seep on the canyon road...limbed it hrs ago.
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It the limestone seep on the canyon road...limbed it hrs ago.
Spell check much? Is that Dutch?
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Last thing on your mind but the first thing on your bum?
Yup. And was I bopping along on my way to work on my trusty olde Kz400 and get a painful reminder lesson in the adiabatic lapse rate, temperature inversions, and that yes, those signs are correct. Bridges really DO freeze before the rest of the road. Ouch.
It had been a nice sunny warm morning on top of the hill, and ice was the last thing on my mind.
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You don't necessarily need ice to ice climb .. chalk cliffs of Dover come to mind >:D
(http://www.rapsodia.fr/phototheque/rapsodia/images/ca040335GE.jpg)
A nice quiet roadcut in the Santa Cruz mountains somewhere might be just the thing ! ;D
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Spell check much? Is that Dutch?
It's a new language, courtesy of Apple.
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You don't necessarily need ice to ice climb .. chalk cliffs of Dover come to mind >:D
(http://www.rapsodia.fr/phototheque/rapsodia/images/ca040335GE.jpg)
Does that even count for dry tooling? more like chalk tooling, mud tooling, sand tooling?
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I've wondered about that waterfall in the big grotto on the SW side of Flumes.
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Heh heh... Nice topic. Assuming the impossible - a freakishly extended sub-zero freeze after multiple downpours - four words come to mind for ice climbing:
Heat. Seeking. Moisture. Missile.
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YES!
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yeah, good call on both counts.
wonder how it looked this morning. I understand Salinas had a freeze warning today. High 20s or something.
We need pretty cold though, for a couple days.
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Yeah- and WET which thus far we have had none of.
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Yeah- and WET which thus far we have had none of.
What, you've never heard of dry ice?
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What, you've never heard of dry ice?
HA, been burned from it that's for sure.
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that would be a cool Halloween trick!
have a bunch of dry ice set up on the cliffs flowing down, the cliffs all decked out spooky stylee, and have kids (or adults) trick or treat various climbs an when they top out they get candy.
well, least that's what I would want for Halloween.
lol
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It was 22 at my house in K.C. this morning. I experienced 9 on the West Side one February evening twenty years ago, or so. Patches of snow lay in all the shaded areas so the hills had a strange leprotic look.
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Keep deaming Sally.
I think the condor chimmney "if" a foot were to fall and temps kept cool for a while after.