http://www.vimeo.com/8008312 - details in the video
Making appearances - Swampy, Sharon, Lee, Bryce and Gavan
Duffy Lake area conditions
More pics here:
http://www.leelau.net/2009/Duffy2009_12_04/index.html
We go up.
Still need some more snow in the creek!
brrr
Gavin rippin' it!
http://www.leelau.net/2009/Duffy2009_12_04/index.html#steepcreek
Go Bryce!
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nice work, looks surprisingly decent up there still.
Hello, just wondering what you are using for those chest POV shots. Excellent quality! Snow still looks good too, I am suprised.
Yes!
The trees in the second pic probably have more snow on them than the entire Alps have.
I don't think we will ever do Joffre Shoulder in conditions like we did last year ever again. we hit it too well last year. I want to go back and go from the very top this time though
Gavin looks to be riding the Prior AMF splitboard, can he possibly give a mini review on his opinions of it?
Why slag free swag?:rolleyes:
ummm, as your doctor i recommend against riding with a scaphoid fracture.
Khansen - its the GoPro HD. big perm - I'll ask him. He rides real aggressive so I think it works well for him
Damn - looks nice. Island back country is freakin battleship armor right now!
Looks nicer than I would have expected too - might have to head up that way this week.
centre couloir looks fun…
From what I have read it is most fun when sliding down it head first…
If you're going to git'er done… might as well do it with class…
It's not like that now. That snow is in small pockets here and there. There is also wind crust, breakable crust and sun crust now mixed in with that in equal measures.
Touring this time of year is strange. The sun didn't come up in the valley all day long, we only saw it briefly when on the ridge. Which was windy. It was far to windy to talk to each other on the ridge.
But I'll take it any day.
centre couloir looks fun…
In pictures from a long way away yes it looks good. From the top it's a whole other story.
It the notch just behind Lee is the corniced entrance, you'll need one mabye two 40m ropes to rap into it. Or just in front of Lee is the scariest looking blind roll to HUGE cliff band that you could try to ski on belay then cut in below the cornice. On Bivouac there is a good account of a couple guys that tried to rap in but their rope was too short. First guy managed to rap off the end of the rope and stick is fall in the couloir, next guy tried the same thing and tomahawked hundreds meters and somehow came out uninjured.
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