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Very nice - how were the mozzies?
pneame - 03/Feb/11
Conspicuously absent, we got lucky. Not a single mozzy either on the appraoch or our time there. Although on our climbing day (believe it or not a couple of hours before this photo was taken), we got snowed on very heavily while completing the top pitch on Pingora. We were warned of mozzies when I talked to various American clmbers about the Cirque, although they did not sound like the 'strip you to the bone' midges of, say, Scotland or even Stanage on a bad day.
jimorothy - 03/Feb/11
No, they aren't - more like slow lumbering predaors. But a lot of them! There was (probably still is) a great t-shirt available in Pinedale with a very artistically rendered picture of about 2 million heading towards you.... I was so afraid of the them that I never made it to the Cirque - blocked by very deep slush both times. Fabulous place nevertheless.
pneame - 03/Feb/11
Well Peter, you were very unlucky. I've been there a couple of times - once to climb, and once to trek. Didn't se a single 'State Bird of Wyoming' the whole time!
jon - 03/Feb/11
What a wonderful place this is. By world standards the mossies are not particularly bad, only really going on the attack whilst preparing the evening meal.
Lightning can be a much more serious concern on Wolf's Arete, since it is the horizontal part of the arete goes on for a long way. (As the guidebook says: "many parties experience electricity"
John Stainforth - 03/Feb/11
Lightning can be a much more serious concern on Wolf's Arete, since it is the horizontal part of the arete goes on for a long way. (As the guidebook says: "many parties experience electricity"
Hi Jon - not really unlucky - more poor judgement as I tried to avoid the 2 banes of US mountain climbing. Heat and blood sucking beasties.
The write up of the winds by jimorothy is a fine bit of prose, BTW. Makes me want to get back out there. We approached the cirque from the west - possibly another bit of poor judgement (less altitude to climb), borne out of laziness and Salt Lake City access times.
pneame - 03/Feb/11
The write up of the winds by jimorothy is a fine bit of prose, BTW. Makes me want to get back out there. We approached the cirque from the west - possibly another bit of poor judgement (less altitude to climb), borne out of laziness and Salt Lake City access times.
I walked in from Big Sandy(?), Pinedale side anyway, both times. Second time was, I'll admit, the start of October. Just a couple of fishermen there - luckily - as neither of the lighters we'd bought worked (they'd worked OK in the valley... ) and they gave us a box of matches. We were starting the Highline Trail - six days is a long time to go without being able to light your stove!
jon - 04/Feb/11