Monday, November 28, 2005

Lineham


lineham right
Originally uploaded by cgoble72.
Blair and I hiked into Lineham on Saturday to try the ice. The trail didn't quite have enough snow to ski. Luckily the end of the valley didn't end up being as full of spindrift as usual, making the approach quite easy. Unfortunately the bottom of the left climb was melted out. The base pillar was in, but the slabby rock above made climbing it more than questionable.

The right route also didn't look overly fun. We ended up hiking out and hitting Trap Line. The approach wasn't too bad, despite being out of shape and climbing much higher than needed. The top of the climb can be spotted by two pieces of purple webbing around a tree near the lip.

The climb wasn't too bad. A nice Grade 3. It would be fine to lead, but you should rap down instead of trying to come up the bottom. There are a number of uniced ledges down lower. We didn't climb the left hand route.

On the way out, Blair gave up trying to hop across on the boulders and just waded in.

4 Comments:

At 11/28/2005 11:33:00 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

i guess i should have called you guys, my wife was gone for the weekend and i did a whole lot of nothing. i figured that there wouldn't be anything in.
 

Posted by scott

 
At 11/28/2005 08:05:00 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Does anyone wanna give kill akisha Kill a try this saturday? 

Posted by chris morris

 
At 11/29/2005 08:29:00 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Absolutely nothing is in on the south side of Crandell. Unfortunately, I doubt much more has formed up this week when compared to last. 

Posted by chris goble

 
At 11/29/2005 02:13:00 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

What would you recomend for the weekend, I forgot to bring my touring gear into lethbridge this week so Im hosed for the ski in's.
Is it snowing down in waterton?
By south side of Crandell do you mean above the warden compound area or do you mean the ampitheaters along Cameron lake road?
Betcha that the drywood would be in good shape!
Anyone wanna go to the Drywood on Saturday?  

Posted by Chris Morris

 

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