Huntington Ravine 12/22/09, Central, Diagonal, and my new 7D
Now at this point it got a little interesting, Between us we had, 1 mountian axe, 2 technical axes, 2 pairs of crampons, and 2 whippets. The ice bulge in central really requires technical tools right now at least to safely free climb it. I had just learned the night before that even though Ben is by far the best FIS ice climber he still doesn’t have his own technical tools. Anyways long story short, after climbing the bulge he had to lower me the tools. Since we didn’t have a rope he got to use a mix of webbing, heavy cord, and P-cord. Ben ran out of cord where the tools are in the picture, so I got to climb up on ice and hook them with my whippet. I have vowed to harass Ben until he stops being so cheap and buys his own tools.
It all worked out in the end.
Ready for some skiing yet? (Ben)
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7 Comments
Chris
wrote on December 26th, 2009 at 8:46 pmNice Allen, I have been considering the 7d, would like to hear more of what you think after you use it more.
p.s. You forgot the “a” in famousinternetskiers.com at the end of the video..
Sam
wrote on December 26th, 2009 at 9:41 pmcool. we now have video.
Greg
wrote on December 27th, 2009 at 9:59 amDudes that’s a pretty incredible first effort with the 7D. I wish I could have made it :/
Greg
wrote on December 27th, 2009 at 9:59 amPS the video is incredible Allen (and Ben)
sfmornay
wrote on December 27th, 2009 at 12:10 pmGreat TR – pics and video! Good that you posted on T4T as well.
Allen sez:
I’ve found that there are 2 choices: either decide ahead of time to take only one camera with you, or you just have to ski everything twice :-)
Cheers, Mike (Greg’s cousin)
sfmornay
wrote on December 27th, 2009 at 12:12 pmYour quotation got left out of the above message, apparently because I put it in brackets. It was supposed to read:
Allen sez: The skiing from diagonal is in the video. It’s tricky deciding what to film and what to shoot.
powhounddd
wrote on December 27th, 2009 at 4:33 pmgreat tr, great song. Climbing ice and skiing above an ice bulge? Hard core. reps.
PS:
=>typo at the end (website addy)