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- Statistics:
- Date Hiked: November 21, 2010
- Miles Hiked: 2.0 (Estimate)
- Elevation Gain: 900' (Estimate)
- Hiking Partner(s): Jeff Shafer
- Routes: WI3
- Description:
- Since it was Sunday with a questionable forecast, Jeff and I decided
to check out Lincoln Falls in hopes of avoiding the crowds.
Lincoln Falls is the thinnest I've ever seen it with the only climbable
ice in the central gully. The middle section had still not filled
in and there was a fair amount of exposed rock. Jeff led the lower
pitch and we were the first group on the ice. I followed and then
led up to the bolts on the boulder at the top of the falls. By
this time several other climbers had arrived and the gully was littered
with rope teams and soloists. We walked off the route and with no
one waiting at the base of the climb started up again. I led the
first pitch and brought Jeff up. He started up the second pitch,
but several of the climbers had set up top ropes across the upper pitch
of the ice. Ice was funneling down the gully (which we expected
since we had decided to climb below others), but no one was yelling any
warning and there were monster size chunks coming down. Jeff
down-climbed back to the anchor and we rapped down. The climbing
was crappy and with so many people on such little ice it became overly
dangerous really fast. We got a few sticks in, but overall it was
somewhat of a disappointing experience.
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