The terrain up there is fantastically rugged! Stunning vast country, am visualizing the massive glaciers. I'm impressed with your skills and enjoy everything you post. ❤
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Just noticed while watching this that you have a great wind mitigation system. Most folks that film in conditions like this would be inaudible. Nice work sir
Nice! Thank you for taking the time to bring us along. As I have mentioned that area has history for me and my family. I had always heard that the rock was too unstable for climbing, however I am thinking that depends...
When I was 16 in 1963, my friend and I climbed the back side from Baron Lake after starting at Grandjean. Back then, we knew nothing about climbing equipment. We made it to the top of the range, so we could see Redfish Lake on the other side, no equipment. Never been so scared in my life, a miracle we both survived it.
Land o' lakes,wi. Here ! ..I saw these features in colorado,devils head area,,,plus wagon wheel scars in the sandstone,,,so cool to experience that area,,,much like this vid,,,...odd Boulder deposits,,...devilshead is where Billy the kid hid out in,,,a camp is up on that formation,where they could ride horses in and out two places,,plus a fire lookout to Pikes Peak,,,very interesting place to visit,,(if you have not yet!)....tnx,,,pat&family
We in Wisconsin have all kinds of granite polished by glaciers. Observatory hill, utliy quarry, barboo quartzite, and numerous out crops in central Wisconsin. In fact in northern Wisconsin we have rock over 3 billion years old! As in archean
At 02:05 we see an ant wander away from Shawn's hand there at the valley floor and then at 08:22 we see an(other) ant again high atop the valley prospect. When I was a primary school student in the mid sixties I watched a film (projector reel to reel from the Canadian National Film Board) my first movie showing rock climbing (a special event in gym class). The climber at the base approach walked through some trees (we hear birds and frog calls) and then a stream and marshy bit before the climber picks up a frog and puts it into his pocket - climbing soon commences - on the way back from the successful climb and passing back the same way (in reality the same shooting sequence), he takes out the frog and puts it back atop his original mossy rock. Credits roll.
My first thought as you showed the rock...SLIPPERY ROCK! What great glaciated valley. I saw the striation through the trees across the valley. Wow what a place! Is there a trail down? It looks like the vegitated gully could potentially hold a way down. Of course with snow on that would be a likely avalanche chute. I can tell that is an amazing area.
I climbed Elephants perch, the Mountaineers route and the Beckey, both great, always thought I would go back. Did you take a boat across the lake for Super slab?
Amazing how straight those striation grooves were, would their length show how long a piece of gravel survived before becoming too smooth to incise a cut and began instead to sand and polish?
Your climbing partner has a lot of patience to be waiting for you to make videos not only on the hike in but also during the climb. =) This is the "Regular Route", right?
Glaciers have been receding for a long long time, not just in the Sawtooths, but everywhere it seems, and the ocean has dropped too. That doesn't make sense.
