Well the weather outside is truly FRIGHTFUL! A bit over 20 degrees and pretty continual winds ranging from 20, up to 35+. The lights were flickering all morning, the power went out and then came back on after about 90 minutes! About a week ago we had the power go off for about 5 hours, but it wasn't this cold. Looks as if March is going OUT like the proverbial lion! YIKES
Smear -
WI 3
You can climb Smear in two short pitches, belaying from a tree on the left side about 1/2 way up. It is often climbed in a more direct and difficult single long pitch with 60 meter ropes.
About 50' right of the main flow is a curtain(or sometimes a pillar) called Double Barrell (4+). You can climb this up and left to the main column, winding through bushes, and eventually finishing on the upper slabs.
75' right of the main climb is an unnamed runnel in a corner. Climb the initial thin curtain to a ledge. Climb the runnel (rock gear useful) up and left to the bushes, finishing on the upper slabs. (4+)
If you want to climb it badly enough, you will. So... why bother ?
—Doug Scott
Just when you think it's over, a few cold days can firm things up again!
Pinnacle Gully, Huntington Ravine
Selected Ice Conditions effective April 24, 2024
It's all over for 2023/2024.
Huntington Ravine
OUT
Repentance
OUT
Standard Route
OUT
Dracula
OUT
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One Of Our Articles: Another Day At Ducks Head (a.k.a. Trollville)
Duck's Head (Trollville) is a great place to toprope or to get your mixed climbing skills in order. This day was a particularly great time...plus we ran into a couple of mixed-masters and got to watch them at work!
Climbing is a very dangerous sport. You can get hurt or even kill yourself. When you go climbing, you do so of your own free will. Everything on this site is to be taken with a grain of salt. Don't blame us if you get up some totally heinous route, in over your head and fall and hurt yourself.
