ZUMA!!!
- Posted: February 22, 2008
- By: andylibrande
- In: Colorado, Snow, Summit County/I-70 Area
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Dates: Saturday February 16th, 2008
Cruised-up to the little town of Montezuma to take advantage of the clear early morning weather. Myself with Trent, Scott and Evan took the trek to this beautiful basin where we were greeted with perfect weather and perfect snow conditions.
Full photo gallery can be found here (of course after you are done here).
Scott at the end of his line in the Steeps section. You can see how much sluff we got moving down the hill in this section. Photo by Trent.
Trent (right) and Evan on top of Big Chute eyeing out the line:
Evan cruising down the middle part of the steeps. Fun stuff:
Evan catching some air with the sled off of the Keylock Cornice (if you are curious ask Trent about where he came up with the name):
Myself coming down the first run of the day. Apparently each line is about 700-800 ft in verticle (thanks to handy GPS) and all of it was perfect. Also note the large avalanche debris fields that we had to navigate around:
Yeah it was that good:
For all of the photos from the trip: http://andylibrande.com/pictures/photos/album34
First Real Report on Anything.
- Posted: February 21, 2008
- By: andylibrande
- In: Colorado, Front Range, Rock
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So, to begin this I will preface this whole thing with these little gems of wisdom (?). For some reason I have been trying to have a portal that I can share some of the adventures I have with friends and let them see some of those photos I usually take of them (as all of you are always asking). In reality I been wanting to do something like this for a long ass time, so here it is in all of its glory.
So to start out I feel it only makes sense if I recap January as a very good month to be out bouldering. Yes I had several excellent days of climbing along with several great snow days all in January.
Additional Photos can be found here (or at the link to the upper right)
We begin this little adventure at Castlewood on January 5th!!! Plenty of snow to hike through, however, luckily Steve and I found some well covered rocks for a solid little session.
Really can’t believe that with as much snow as we had this area was dry (Location Link)
Bushwhacking (!?!) through c-wood.
Now for something a little nicer/warmer. Carter Lake evening session. Myself and Chris decided to go fly-fishing in Estes Park to take advantage of the day, well the fishing was going good until the wind picked-up and made it a little hard to toss those tiny flies. With Carter so close we decided to finish off the day with a quick evening session.
The next day we needed a little more climbing then the handful of problems we did at Carter, the only logical thing was to head off to Castlewood for late afternoon bouldering at the Buddha Cave area. Accomplices: Chris, Steve and Toby.
Chris in Berthoud Cave:
Steve trying to catch Monkey Shots:
On the way out we headed into a little trouble with the law. Apparently the park closes at 5:00 and when you come out in pitch black at 6:15 on a sunday night you get fined and stuff. But it’s all cool, we found out he was riding dirty…
Link to all the photos from the trip(s):
http://andylibrande.com/pictures/photos/album33
Catching up!
- Posted: February 07, 2008
- By: andylibrande
- In: Random
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Please be patient as I catch up with 2008, a couple skiing and climbing trip reports will be on the way!
Welcome
- Posted: February 07, 2008
- By: andylibrande
- In: Random
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Welcome to my news section and my latest update to the website. Since I do a lot of outdoor activities and I am always taking photos, my friends (you) are constantly hounding me to post up photos so they can have visual representation of how awesome they (pretend) to be. So hopefully i actually use this damn thing and provide the world with something a little more useful.
Enjoy!
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