Ice climbing

[Ironbark]

Looks good Rube. Is this the ice pit? Where exactly is that?

Off to Rjukan, Norway on Friday.

 

[RUBE]

Just outside of a holy land we call "The Frozen Tundra", in Green Bay Wisconsin.
This is a different corner.
But boy oh boy Norske land. Have some lutefisk or at least a good pull of Aquavit for me! Have some fun in the fjords.

Edit: Gonna need some pics

 

[RUBE]

And Ironbark this is the only phrase you need
"Kunne jeg ha enda et øl og hvor er badet ?"

 

[Ironbark]

And Ironbark this is the only phrase you need
"Kunne jeg ha enda et øl og hvor er badet ?"

So, if i say that am I going to get lucky or beaten up?

I ferried an aircraft up from Memphis to Wisconsin a good few years ago now. I think it was somewhere like Watertown or something like that.

 

[euroford]

The Ice Pit had an open festival last weekend which was a ton of fun. i've been a member in years past, but havn't made it up there much as i spend more and more time in colorado these days, moving there shortly.

As a climber, this can be a tough place to live, but its allot more tolerable in the winter with awesome spots like the munising area and the ice pit!

my pics from last weekend:

http://picasaweb.google.com/euroford/IcePitFest2010#

my fiances (accomplished bigwall and trad climber) first time trying out ice, she said she'll give it another go, but vastly prefers fisher towers

 

[treeslayer]

The Ice Pit had an open festival last weekend which was a ton of fun. i've been a member in years past, but havn't made it up there much as i spend more and more time in colorado these days, moving there shortly.
As a climber, this can be a tough place to live, but its allot more tolerable in the winter with awesome spots like the munising area and the ice pit!

Tim, I'm still here, but you're moving? I will be bringing my mountain bike out this spring, was looking forward to biking the trails you spoke of earlier.
shoot me a PM, sometime.

Very nice pics BTW

 

[euroford]

yeah, moving out to the boulder colorado area, as a biker and climber, obviously its a little bit of an upgrade! not to mention a career move and my fiance lives there. i'll be here until the end of march though, so hopefully we get a chance to ride!

 

[RUBE]

So, if i say that am I going to get lucky or beaten up?

You will more than likely get a beer and if someone points thats where the bathroom is.
Yes there is a hunk of cement in Watertown so that would be possible.
Have fun and send some pics.

euroford. I only got to climb one day, at the pit, as I got spanked by the 2 visit rule. 2 visits and than you HAVE to join the club at sundays rate of 140.00 and than still park up top
The attitude and stars werent lining up for us there.

 

[RUBE]

View attachment 122342

View attachment 122343So we went here instead. And yes that is a cooler being lowered in. It was meant to be. The sound of running water, in stereo, trees, natural rock it may have been shorter but it made up for that in spades.

 

[euroford]

rube, i like your style. go figure that a couple of ice pit climbers would find each other on the arborist site.

addiction to really beetchin tools i spose?

 

[RUBE]

Why thank you euro. Yes the ice tools of any climbing tools are, to me, the coolest. Axes, crampons, ice screws rock!
I have a large cottonwood that has had a couple of ascents. :jawdrop:
Hopefully the hardcores are ignoring this thread by now.