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mike m
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black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 13, 2010 - 01:32pm PT
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Brian, is Moonstone in the Stillwater?
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
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San Francisco, Ca
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Apr 13, 2010 - 02:50pm PT
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The fishing is so good, usually. One time a buddy and I decided to hump it up to this lake in the Gros Ventres. Packing up, we decide to not bring much food because we would be feasting on trout. Dude, all we need is a skillet. We arrived at our above the tree line lake to find it completely frozen over. Of course, a huge storm swooped in and and kept us pinned down for a couple of long, hungry days.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Apr 13, 2010 - 05:14pm PT
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Cowpoke (where'd he get that name?) about to launch up slick quartzite with iffy pro
and bad weather moving in, Flying Buttress route on Medicine Bow Peak (5.9+).
Looking back on the Medicine Bow Diamond and Diamond Buttress.
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the museum
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Rapid City
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Apr 13, 2010 - 08:58pm PT
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Cowpoke that would be a definite 'No', but I guarantee next time we're by there, we'll eat there!
the museum
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 13, 2010 - 11:56pm PT
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mike m
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black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 14, 2010 - 12:27am PT
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Here are a couple of shots from about fifteen years ago on my first trip into the Winds. We did the 5.8 on Steeple. You can see the giant chimney in the background where you climb for two pitches through it and come out on the other side. You then have a gerat 5.8 pitch that is about 150ft that goes to the summit. The other picture is on the summit of Steeple with a cool view of Haystacks knife edge ridge. In the far background to the left is the cirque of the towers. I think Kelsey says that Steeple is one of the few 5th class summits in the Winds.
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Apr 14, 2010 - 12:57am PT
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Brian, is Moonstone in the Stillwater?
Nah, the water there is sweet, not still...
That prior shot is just to the right of this side...(rumor has someone rolled a bowling ball down the deep trough?)...
Ellingwood in the Windys
On route
Moran...
Wyoming? Why not? Whoo hoo!
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Apr 14, 2010 - 09:19am PT
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Wyoming bumper sticker: "Keep Wyoming Green--Bring Money!"
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cowpoke
climber
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Apr 14, 2010 - 10:18am PT
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slick quartzite with iffy pro and bad weather moving in and I was back in the office by lunch! That day is in my all-time top ten, Chiloe, and I was mighty happy you led that slick crux.
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Apr 14, 2010 - 12:16pm PT
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Cowpoke-
Do you have a topo of your route on the Medicine Bow Diamond? I did a route on that peak back in 1961 with Bob LaGrange that was supposedly only the 3rd ascent of the face. Ours was not a 1st ascent, but we supposedly elimiated most of the aid..we only used 2 points of artificial. It's been so long now that the details escape me--I still have some kodachromes that I need to transfer to digital....
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 14, 2010 - 01:17pm PT
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Brokedown, have you tried taking pics of your pics with your digital. It doesn't turn out great, but it gets the point across. I think it was crimpergirl that turned me on to this. That is what I did with the Winds pictures above and you loose some quality, but can still see the image pretty good.
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cowpoke
climber
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Apr 14, 2010 - 06:05pm PT
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brokedownclimber, check out Skip Harper's web page. It has a rough topo of many of the routes on the diamond buttress, including the climb on which the photo above was taken by Chiloe: Flying Buttress. There was also a Rock-n-Ice or Climbing issue from 10 years or so ago that covered many of the routes in the snowies. I'll try to dig it up.
edit: one other thing, that is likely obvious to most, but worth noting for others. Like any alpine area, expect the unexpected in the snowies. For example, most topos indicated rap anchors on flying buttress, but we found no indication of such...topping out completed the adventure, anyhow. And, the loose nature of that rock suggests fairly rapid changes in the character of routes over time.
another edit: meant to also say that I hope you figure out which route you did in '61...very impressive that you were up there back in the day, brokedownclimber!
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divad
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wmass
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Apr 14, 2010 - 06:36pm PT
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The chimney on Steeple, two nice pitches...
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Apr 14, 2010 - 07:15pm PT
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The Summer of 1961 was really a breakthrough year for my climbing; I did the "Love Route" on Hallet's 2nd buttress, Stettners Ledges on Longs, both with LaGrange, and the Northcutt-Carter on Hallet's with Layton the Great 'un; finished off my Summer with the MBD. Only a few weeks later I was wearing Army Green for 3 years. LaGrange was a favorite partner of mine since we both were math/science types. Bob LaGrange was later an associate professor of mathematics at UW in Laramie, until his death just a few years ago.
Added as an edit: It looks like we did some variation of the Diamond Express!? Can't be sure until I find my slides and copy them.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Apr 14, 2010 - 07:20pm PT
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David Wilson, what is that wall in your first pic??? Holy!
Anybody??
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David Wilson
climber
CA
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Apr 14, 2010 - 09:19pm PT
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bluering, that is called "the monolith" and it's near the cirque of the towers. beckey did a route on the right hand side.
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the museum
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Rapid City
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Apr 14, 2010 - 09:34pm PT
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the museum
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Rapid City
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Apr 14, 2010 - 09:46pm PT
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Apr 14, 2010 - 09:54pm PT
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The Snowy Range has some very old rocks, 2 billion years plus ... Proterozoic metasediments,
I'm told. They record a time when tectonics worked quite differently.
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