Postholing Deep Snow

coldclimbcoldclimb Registered Users Posts: 1,169 Major grins
edited March 21, 2005 in Sports
Anybody got any good tips on snow pictures? We went out to climb yesterday and wound up postholing a few hundred feet through immeasurable depths of snow (read: couldn't reach the ground in most spots). Had a blast both doing that and drying off on the warm rock in the sun, but I didn't come home with very many good pictures. Not really much of anything actually.


Caption for this pic:

"We have to get up THERE???
John Borland
www.morffed.com

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  • coldclimbcoldclimb Registered Users Posts: 1,169 Major grins
    edited March 18, 2005
    Also this one. He was using too much good technique, I couldn't ever catch him looking upwards.rolleyes1.gif
    John Borland
    www.morffed.com
  • USAIRUSAIR Registered Users Posts: 2,646 Major grins
    edited March 18, 2005
    Coldclimb
    Good stuffthumb.gif
    Keep them comming

    Thanks
    Fred
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited March 18, 2005
    USAIR wrote:
    Good stuffthumb.gif
    Keep them comming

    Thanks
    Fred

    nod.gif

    [shiver]
    Andy

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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,943 moderator
    edited March 19, 2005
    coldclimb wrote:
    Caption for this pic:

    "We have to get up THERE???
    I'd change it to "Hey, where'd I leave my snowshoes?".

    There's no reason to post-hole if you don't have to :D

    Ian
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  • coldclimbcoldclimb Registered Users Posts: 1,169 Major grins
    edited March 19, 2005
    ian408 wrote:
    I'd change it to "Hey, where'd I leave my snowshoes?".

    There's no reason to post-hole if you don't have to :D

    Ian
    Snowshoes would only have made it MORE impossible, since you'd sink to your hips and then wouldn't be able to pull them out.rolleyes1.gif The snow was QUITE soft... lol. It was awesome fun, even if a little wet.
    John Borland
    www.morffed.com
  • mushymushy Registered Users Posts: 643 Major grins
    edited March 20, 2005
    nice pictures, I can't imagine climbing when it gets that cold. Over here in West OZ we don't go out if there is a light frost on the ground!
    May I take your picture?
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,943 moderator
    edited March 20, 2005
    coldclimb wrote:
    Snowshoes would only have made it MORE impossible, since you'd sink to your hips and then wouldn't be able to pull them out.rolleyes1.gif The snow was QUITE soft... lol. It was awesome fun, even if a little wet.
    huh? snowshoes spread the load over a larger surface area. meaning that
    instead of spreading 160lbs over say 1^2', it's spread over 5^2 feet.

    in the long run, this means you sink less, not more.

    regardless, it's still hella fun!

    Ian
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  • coldclimbcoldclimb Registered Users Posts: 1,169 Major grins
    edited March 20, 2005
    ian408 wrote:
    huh? snowshoes spread the load over a larger surface area. meaning that
    instead of spreading 160lbs over say 1^2', it's spread over 5^2 feet.

    in the long run, this means you sink less, not more.

    regardless, it's still hella fun!

    Ian
    Well it WOULD mean that if it wasn't 60 degrees and the snow had any support to it at all, but in this case the snow was so soft it would have taken a sheet of plywood on each foot. Even skis or a snowboard wouldn't have stayed on top here. And YES it was more fun than I've had most of the winter!rolleyes1.gif Thanks for the feedback all!
    John Borland
    www.morffed.com
  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited March 21, 2005
    mushy wrote:
    nice pictures, I can't imagine climbing when it gets that cold. Over here in West OZ we don't go out if there is a light frost on the ground!
    I'm thinkin that for an Alaskan, this isn't cold at all! lol3.gif
    Erik
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,943 moderator
    edited March 21, 2005
    coldclimb wrote:
    Well it WOULD mean that if it wasn't 60 degrees and the snow had any support to it at all, but in this case the snow was so soft it would have taken a sheet of plywood on each foot. Even skis or a snowboard wouldn't have stayed on top here. And YES it was more fun than I've had most of the winter!rolleyes1.gif Thanks for the feedback all!
    60? Time to summer'ize the snow machines :D

    looking forward to more as it warms up a bit.

    Ian
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