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NYClimber

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Hey all, as my name suggests I am in to climbing. With that said I’d like to know if anyone else out there is also? I am also looking for beta on Mt. Hood because I am going there to attempt a winter summit in March.

If you are a climber, mountaineer or a backpacker please reply or I guess this thread will come to a sad ending.

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P. Gabriel

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Yes sir

Hi there

I work a lot with the French and Swiss alps as a tour operator in the ski and hiking industry.

We offer ski packages allover the Alps but I was planning in setting up a Tour du Mt Blanc 9 days walking and sleeping 8 nights in nice "refuge"

I have the knowledge and capacity to guide this tour.

I am not planning it on a professional side but only because I want to do it and it's hard to find people for this kind of tour.
 

NYClimber

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Well, I’m glad to see at least a few more out there. I try to do at least one major trip a year. In the last few years I have managed to climb the Grand Teton, Mt. Whitney and through hike the JMT. As I stated in my first post I am going to try Mt Hood and we decided to try Mt Rainier on the same trip since they are so close. I welcome any adventure stories anyone wants to share.

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EagerBeaver

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NYClimber said:
I am also looking for beta on Mt. Hood because I am going there to attempt a winter summit in March.
NYC

Why settle for a half assed mountain like that? I say you should climb Mount Everest. Why? Because, as Sir Edmund Hilary once said, it's there. And the climb could also kill you if you don't do it right.:eek: Nobody gets killed climbing pussy mountains like Mount Hood.:p

You should read the book, "Into Thin Air".
 
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franky

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EB obviously knows NOTHING about climbing. Everest? overrated for the bang/buck ratio.
Franky is an avid climber. I have climbed Mt. Hood in winter, Mt. Rainer twice in summer, so NYClimber feel free to ask away. The coolest option is to bring alpine touring skii's and skin up to the "gates" and then ski back down. If I ever do the route again, that is how I will do it. Rainer in March, well lots of misery for that summitt. You better be very good at route finding and crevass work.
By the way, if you are not too bent on mt Hood, March is a PHENOMINAL time to go and climb in the alps. I have summited there as well. I am probably heading there myself, fancy a side trip to an FKK club?
So NYCLIMBER, do you ice climb? If you find an sp who climbs let me know, I would die for that. I previously asked about it but got mostly tongue in check responses.
good luck with the trip
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NYClimber

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Franky, I’ve traded in my skis for a snowboard but the thought of boarding down certainly crossed my mind. I will definitely PM you later for info. I’m always looking for new people to put up routes with so maybe we will hook up sometime. A few of sp I’ve discussed climbing with have only done gym climbing.

Roland, if you ever get a chance climb Whitney it’s awesome. Even if you don’t want to do a technical route try the Mountaineer Route; although not really technical I’d bring a small selection of gear as there are a couple exposed moves.

I’ll post a story soon of the first time I tried to summit the Grand Teton in the middle of summer and got snowed off.

NYC
 

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Nice posts now on this. My favorite climbing book is "white spider". the eiger is such a classic climb nowadays and the story of the first attempts are great. I think it is the mountain with the most "history". It is also probably one of the greatest climbs for an aspiring climber but is now probably better in winter because of the loss of the snow fields in summer. I wont babble too much about this.
For those interested, Chamonix is the place to head for a week or two of climbing. The cable cars make the high mountains really easy to access. Climbs are as easy or as tough as you want. Trips back to the valley are short and espresso and cigarettes can be easily had. I have never gotten laid there but if I had I would now be living there.
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NYClimber

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A Climbing Story

Mid summer several years ago my climbing buddy and I went to Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming for 8 days to try and climb the Grand Teton (13,370 ft) of which about 1400 ft of it is actual rock climbing. It’s about a 6.5-mile hike up with about 6000 ft of elevation gain before the climbing starts. It rained for the first 2 days so we just hung out at a campground and got our gear together. My regular backpack weight is around 28-32 lbs and I had to add about 25 lbs of climbing gear (rope, carabiners, protection, etc.) so I was humping 55+ lbs up the mountain. We finally got some good weather and the report for the next 5 days was good so we started. The first day we hiked 4 miles in (and up) to a place called Petzoldt Caves. This might have been the most exhausting hike I have done at the time. We had to cross small rivers, boulder fields and lots of elevation to get there. The next morning while we were packing for the rest of the hike up we ran into a ranger who said a massive storm was moving in but there was a small chance it might miss us, so we continued up. It took us 5 hours to hike 2.5 miles up to the base of a small cliff that must be climbed to get to an area known as the Lower Saddle where you camp before starting the 1400 ft rock climb to the summit of the mountain. By the time we got 3/4 of the way up it started raining and sleeting and by the time we got to the small cliff it was raining ice. We decided it would be too dangerous to try and climb the cliff with our backpacks because it was icing up really bad. We hiked down a couple hundred yards and made a bivy next to a huge boulder and had some hot food and drink (I was freezing my ass off). By the time we were done eating it started to clear up so we decided to climb the small cliff (without gear) to the Lower Saddle and check out the start of the climb. From where we were you could see into Idaho and what we saw was a giant black sky so we decide to go back down to the tent. By the time we got to the bottom of the small cliff it started sleeting again. We looked back up the cliff and like out of a movie you could see the black cloud roll over the cliff. As we raced back to the tent we ran into two more groups and recommended they pitch camp now. We continued to the tent and dove in cold and wet. During the night a terrible storm raged. There were lightning strikes so close that you could see the bolts through the tent walls, rock slides with boulders the size of cars rolling down the mountain and 60+ mph winds. Needless to say I didn’t get much sleep wondering if one of the rockslides would take us out. In the morning when I decided to brave opening the tent and we found that it had snowed over 10 inches and there were snow drifts several feet deep. It’s the middle of summer, WTF. The mountain had decided not to let us up. So, we packed our stuff and headed down. The narrow switch back trail was hidden beneath the snow so we had trouble finding the safe route down. However, the fact that I can write this means we did ok getting down. It was amazing because after we got below 9000’ it was very nice. Along the way down we passed several groups going up and told them about the conditions, however it was so nice down low that they didn’t believe us. It ended up snowing for the next 5 days and we did not get to summit that year.

I learned a lot about mountaineering on this trip. The only thing I messed up on was I didn’t bring good gloves so my hand kept getting numb from the cold (I haven’t made that mistake again). We went back the next year and made the summit via Lower and Upper Exum. We also did Petzoldt ridge as an extra climb.
 

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Mountains

Not a mountaineer but have had a lifelong fascination with mountains.

My formative years were spent on the Plateau/Mt.Royal and one of my earliest memories is spending part of a Sunday with my parents looking at Montreal from the two Mount Royal look-outs.Later while visiting family friends in Vermont we went on an outing to Jay Peak when there was only the partial lift and climbed to the top.The 360 degree,top of the world view and sensation are still with me.

Over the years some of my best vacations or getaways have been spent on mountains and I regularly will drive out of my way to take the scenic route thru mountains.As for thrills no rollercoaster can match the trip down the 77 from the 81 to Statesville,N.C.
 

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NYCLIMBer good job on the lower and upper exum. That is a really really good route. The lower has wonderful and difficult climbing. the black wall is the highlight of the climb. I am jealous. I have done the lower exum but not the upper.
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Challenging Hiking Destinations around Montreal

I am not a climber but I hike and occasionally do scrambling as well. I section hiked most of NJ and NY portion of AT. I hiked up Mt.Tremblant thrice to save on lift ticket so that I can spend another hour with a SP without going over budget. Anyway what are some of the more challenging day-trip or over-nighter hiking destination around Montreal wtihout crossing the border?
 

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EagerBeaver said:
Nobody gets killed climbing pussy mountains like Mount Hood.:p

Every year at least one hiker gets killed on Mt.Washington. Usually exposure due to rapid weather changes. One year we couldn't hike above the tree-line because the wind would blow us right off our feet. My favorite time of year is the winter. Fewer people. I've spent a few New Year Eve's playing hockey on Hermit Lake, with a pair of rolled-up socks as a puck ;-) There are many nice trails that cross the plateau around Mt.Washington. Don't let the presence of people who took a car or train up, bother you. They are just enjoying the view. We are enjoying the voyage.
Time to get back into shape!!!!
 
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