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Post by cweston on Mar 4, 2019 6:48:08 GMT -8
It's easy to capture, in a photo, the steepness of some terrain that is off there, somewhere. But it's much harder to capture the steepness of the terrain you are actually standing on. Sometimes it happens accidentally... (the last pic is a bonus dip into the historical archive.)
Sangres, Broken Hand Pass North Cascades, Middle Creek (near Whatcom Pass)
Gore Range, SE slopes of Mt. Powell
Gore Range: Pass between S fork Black Creek and Bubble Lake Fork Black Creek
N. Cascades, Boulder Butte summit N Cascades, Cloudy Peak N. Cascades, West slopes of Mt. Maude: the infamous "big ditch." That thing is a bitch to cross--it's a lot deeper than it looks, and it's usually very loose and/or muddy. I took a nasty tumble in there, and many local hikers/climbers have similar tales.)
Sangres, Colony Baldy.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Mar 4, 2019 7:01:46 GMT -8
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Post by GaliWalker on Mar 4, 2019 7:26:00 GMT -8
Well, after walkswithblackflies ' post, I can't help but put up this old one of mine from Half Dome:
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Post by GaliWalker on Mar 4, 2019 7:33:41 GMT -8
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Post by cweston on Mar 4, 2019 8:35:33 GMT -8
Getting ready to go back down Aasgard Pass, Washington I never made it there during my Washington days. There was a hilariously over-the-top warning about the route in the Alpine Lakes version of the "100 Hikes" series at one time, though. The dire tone always made me laugh, but I guess it *is* important that "regular trail hikers" understand that a scramble route like that is a different kind of beast altogether. (That kind of talk just makes me *more* likely to want to do the route, but I'm just [mis-]wired that way.)
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Post by GaliWalker on Mar 4, 2019 8:43:17 GMT -8
The hike up to Aasgard Pass is steep but it is not a scramble, just boulder hopping to get around the lake and to the base of the climb. It's a grunt, but nothing more than that, as long as you stay on course; people sometimes get into trouble when they stray to climber's right and end up at a waterfall, so watch out for that...but that's pretty much it as far as I remember.
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Post by cweston on Mar 4, 2019 9:13:14 GMT -8
My favorite type of hiking guide books are the ones that give honest and reliable information about climbs, scrambles, and off-trail routes. But authors are clearly wary to go there, undoubtedly for reasons of "culpability," either legal/civil or ethical. It's too bad, really. It seems that the internet age and its greater dissemination of route "beta" has drawn more and more hikers off the trails. Whether that's a good thing or not, it's a thing, so people really need reliable information in order to make informed decisions where their safety is concerned.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Mar 4, 2019 9:44:28 GMT -8
Ha! When I saw your photo, I immediately thought "That looks like a typical Adirondack trail".
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Post by rebeccad on Mar 4, 2019 12:48:26 GMT -8
Great photos, and great thread idea! We’ve seen some nice steep bits here in New Zealand (New England was good training for this place). Climbing Gillespie Pass (from the Young River into the Siberia Valley). It was that steep, but there was a trail, of sorts. The other side was almost as steep, and about 3 times as long. The next day we did a side-trip to Crucible Lake. It also had a long stretch of near-vertical trail, navigable mostly because it was a tangle of roots.
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Post by cweston on Mar 4, 2019 12:58:07 GMT -8
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Post by starwalker on Mar 4, 2019 21:49:03 GMT -8
Angel's Landing.
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Post by swimswithtrout on Mar 5, 2019 19:45:10 GMT -8
I won't post my rock climbing photos, where the rope is hanging 30-40 feet away from the base of the wall in just a 90 foot climb. Here's a "typical" day BP'g in the Wind's.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Mar 6, 2019 10:01:31 GMT -8
I won't post my rock climbing photos, where the rope is hanging 30-40 feet away from the base of the wall in just a 90 foot climb. Ropes? Ropes are for pansies. LOL!
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Post by swimswithtrout on Mar 6, 2019 20:18:24 GMT -8
Ropes? Ropes are for pansies. LOL! Yey, they don't do much good when the first 30' crux is nearly 180* inverted 5.11 "cave climbing, and your first pro is 30' higher after you round the lip. (Throw back to 1975) But I don't mind when it's 5.12b and a continuously chossy limestone bulge from ground to anchors. I'm not Alex Honnold
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Post by amaruq on Mar 7, 2019 5:43:27 GMT -8
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