off the subject ? & ice ?

[Mr sluggo]

anyone out there snowshoe? how are snow totals at lower elev. in slc, ie millcreek, lower trails in BCC. It would seem O-town is boycotting snow this year but rumor has it SLC has been getting some. I convinced some of my friends to get snowshoes for xmas this year to enjoy some cardio and now they all hate me because we have no snow here.

to validate this post on a climbers site...how is the great white? did scruffy band ever achieve climbable conditions during those brief cold spells? the ampitheater above my house in ogden is teasing me. it never forms but the top 100' has some thin continuous ice, which means the bottom three hundred feet is still rock. I have never climbed it but if even half of it formed it would be fun. it would take the right amount of snow melt above and inversion below to get that thing frozen.

[Tenesmus]

The great white icicle was good on friday - the top was there but not very consolidated. Today was 50 degrees though.

my wife bought me crampons for christmas. can you believe that?

[builttospill]

I'll be on great white tomorrow and can report. Ditto the question on scruffy.....I've never seen it formed but I dont spend much time in the tri-canyons.....what are the chances it is still climbable tomorrow?

[Mr sluggo]

a couple years ago during a good inversion i climbed scruffy left and right. they were fun. since i live in ogden im not sure how quickly they go away though. if you climb them post up conditions. i might be able to sneak away tomorrow although we were in the area of the 'numbers' - as named in the dave black book - near willard today without much luck. there was ice but it was rotten and not well attached to the rock. just too warm it would seem.

nice wife tenesmus. many significant others cringe at the idea of spouses climbing, especially ice. im going out on a limb and speculating that she climbs with you occassionally.

[sevrdhed]

[Skyman]

[Tenesmus]

[builttospill]