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Vancouver, BC
Canada
149 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2012 : 11:57 AM
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Very nicely written report Blair.
This was/is a great trip. |
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West Vancouver, B.C.
Canada
289 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2012 : 12:35 PM
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A few more pics...
Our camp on the ridge at ~1700m
   
Sunrise shots
 
Heading up
    
Summit shots Dean, Alexis, Misha, Stefanie and Alastair |
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Vancouver, bc
Canada
1009 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2012 : 12:41 PM
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| Excellent timing and team. Congrats. Looking at Dean's frost bite in the parking lot gave us some pause to worry. Glad things worked out. |
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962 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2012 : 12:44 PM
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Originally posted by craigS
Summit shots Dean, Alexis, Misha, Stefanie and Alastair
You guys and gals rock! |
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Vancouver
108 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2012 : 1:26 PM
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Originally posted by Alex Best
Congratulation everybody!
Great TR & beautiful pictures!
Some Atwell photos from Mt.Garibaldi Aug 2007.
 
 
That rock looks Nasty. I think I prefer the winter conditions. |
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Vancouver
108 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2012 : 1:28 PM
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Originally posted by jeffhan
this is indeed a epic which can be compared with the Judge trip! i have to say i am very very very jealous :)
Great team work and lots of congrats!
You should have come with us. Take some time off! |
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Moxie scambler of pinnacles, tireless leader haunting the CDN/US border climbing everything in sight
Burnaby, BC
Canada
1272 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2012 : 1:39 PM
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Wow. Just. Wow.
Awesome, awesome trip. Thanks for sharing!
PB |
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Vancouver
108 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2012 : 1:41 PM
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[quote]Originally posted by tzoflier
Excellent TR, Blair!
Thank goodness for the Way Back Machine.
External frame backpacks, with miscellany hanging about? What year did Arcteryx open for business?
Blue jeans as ski mountaineering breathable technical outerwear? Did relaxed fit, stretch denim exist in 1973?
No beacon, probe, shovel, or airbag! What were they thinking?
No variometer, radio, GPS, helmets, or any safety devices for extreme ski hangliding over treacherous snow covered alpine peaks, wearing blue jeans? Surely, they must've had releasable ski bindings for their straight skinny skis?
How is this possible?
After the first day, when the main cinematographer fell in a crevasse, and our guide rode down the headwall of the Murchison Glacier on top of a class 4 avalanche (pissed off he lost his ski pole), all was OK. I guess we were just lucky a lot of the time. That is where I started hang gliding. I could tell you a few stories about that too.
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Burnaby, BC
Canada
345 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2012 : 1:51 PM
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| What a beautiful climb! Congrats to those who succeeded on their first attempt! |
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Squamish, British Columbia
Canada
1008 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2012 : 5:01 PM
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| Awesome job guys! Will hopefully get up this one myself, this TR will prove invaluable. |
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Surrey, BC
Canada
1005 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2012 : 5:32 PM
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122 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2012 : 7:51 PM
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Blair,
I'm curious to know what became of your daring partner, Jeff Campbell?
I'd love to hear of your exploits in hangliding back in the day. One reads of many deaths of hangliding pilots, equipped with all the latest instrumentation, aids, devices, and the best that modern performance materials science can provide, when flying in perfect weather, over simple terrain.
How you piloted your gliders at altitude, over treacherous snow covered summits, with presumably unpredictable mountain air currents, with a very rudimentary, version 1 hanglider, equipped with not much more than the clothes on your back and a pair of skis I do not know? How were these gliders transported to the summit or your launch site? Where did you land and how were you recovered, helicopter? |
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Vancouver, BC
Canada
386 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2012 : 8:14 PM
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Very impressive! And given how that peak looks in summer, this feat will not be soon/easily repeated.
NZ antics look just incredible! |
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Richmond, BC
Canada
2441 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2012 : 8:17 PM
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some wicked looking stratugi to ski across down there
congrats and great report |
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Richmond, BC
Canada
2441 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2012 : 8:26 PM
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Are those two pickets at the top or a sling around a snow bollard or neither? |
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Vancouver
349 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2012 : 10:06 PM
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Wow! Incredible movie, Blair! I would like to borrow and watch it one day, 
Thanks for the great trail report and pictures! It was a long strenuous trip. Don't know how many times I said that I hate ''paul ridge" on the way back.  Thanks all of you walked ahead of me for breaking trail. Thanks Dean for leading the final pinnacle.
Another piece of precious memory in my life. Cheers!
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Hope, BC
Canada
7098 Posts |
Posted - 04/13/2012 : 12:25 AM
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Originally posted by craigS
A few more pics...
Summit shots Dean, Alexis, Misha, Stefanie and Alastair
I have to agree with Stoked, Too Awesome! |
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Terminator shade wearing, summit questing, double Grinding, Gordo voting self annointed 'dumb ass' and Aconcagua Bagga who dreams of Robson, Teton, The Judge, and.....and....
Port Moody, B.C
Canada
2210 Posts |
Posted - 04/13/2012 : 08:04 AM
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| Great job guys. I need to get out side soon. |
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Extreme ski tourin, mountain bikin addict who hikes at least once a year
2506 Posts |
Posted - 04/13/2012 : 08:47 AM
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| how did i miss this? that's pretty darn cool. I skied that in January years back but didn't have the nuts to climb the last bit of the peak. Any shots of the Armenian or Siberian? |
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Vancouver
108 Posts |
Posted - 04/13/2012 : 08:52 AM
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Originally posted by LeeL
how did i miss this? that's pretty darn cool. I skied that in January years back but didn't have the nuts to climb the last bit of the peak. Any shots of the Armenian or Siberian?
I for one didn't want to get close enough to the corniced edge to get a good look down the west side. I was sure tempted though. I'm not sure why the guys on the peak didn't take a few shots of it though. I think they could see better than I what was over the edge. |
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Atwell East Face Easter
