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changpeng on January 6, 2022 at 10:22 am · in reply to: Video self-assessment for ice climbing #61667

This is the best ice climbing technique critique I’ve seen online, Will Gadd commenting on a client (who wasn’t climbing badly, just not as efficient). I learned a ton just by _watching_ the video. I’m sure you can get more by videoing yourself with self-diagnosis or with the “floating” ice climbers’ help 🙂

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changpeng on February 18, 2020 at 1:55 pm · in reply to: Mt. Rainier & Mt. Baker back-to-back #38395

In August 2018 my girlfriend and I climbed Mt Baker and Mt Rainier back to back. We first climbed the North Ridge of Mt Baker with AAI. After the descent we had 2 full recover days with driving being the most strenuous workout. Then we climbed Kautz Glacier on Mt Rainier ourselves with 2 other friends. We climbed the ice pitches on Kautz and reached some 12,500 ft and got turned by back the massive crevasse field before us. Though we felt fit enough for either mountain, we weren’t training back then, and on Mt Rainier we could definitely still feel the fatigue in the legs. But I still think that if the conditions were right, we could make the summit, and we would need to spend another night at high camp and descend the next day. We were lucky to have a long period of really nice weather in the Cascades then. If it was rough, we probably couldn’t have climbed as much.

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changpeng on February 18, 2020 at 1:20 pm · in reply to: Q on Ice Tool Max Hang workout in Eiger program #38391

Thank you Scott! I’ll try using straight axes.