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Hidden Falls
12/10/2006
 
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(1) Peter feels menacing with sharp, steel spikes attached to every limb (photo by Fabio Somenzi).
(2) Peter starts out up Hidden Falls. Like me, this was his first time on waterfall ice (photo by Charles Danforth).
(3) Peter on the lower part of the falls (phto by Fabio Somenzi).
(4) Peter climbs (photo by Charles Danforth).
(5) Chris psychs himself up (photo by Charles Danforth).
(6) Chris works his way up the waterfall (photo by Charles Danforth). Most of us stopped at the base of the upper pillar because the pillar was pretty fragile and we didn't want to damage it for future climbers.
(7) Chris works his way up the thin ice to the right of the upper pillar (photo by Charles Danforth).
(8) Another shot of Chris working his way up the thin ice to the right of the upper pillar (photo by Charles Danforth).
(9) Chris prepares to lower off from his high point (photo by Charles Danforth). He could have continued to the top but didn't want to damage the fragile upper pillar.
(10) Charles climbs (photo by Fabio Somenzi).
(11) Charles works his way up the thin ice to the right of the upper pillar (photo by Fabio Somenzi).
(12) Looking down from the base of the fragile upper pillar (photo by Charles Danforth).
(13) Fabio practices making V-threads (photo by Charles Danforth).
(14) Charles practices making V-threads (photo by Chris Gerber).
(15) We estimated we had over $2000 worth of ice tools along on the trip (photo by Fabio Somenzi)!
(16) Whenever Chris and Peter are along you know there's going to be an excessive amount of shenanigans (photo by Fabio Somenzi).
(17) I'm not exactly sure what Brian is doing here (photo by Fabio Somenzi).
(18) Brian was by far the most experienced among us - on his second lap he did some more interesting dry-tooling moves at the bottom (photo by Fabio Somenzi)
(19) Brian climbing (photo by Fabio Somenzi).
(20) Chris, Brian, and Peter at the base of Hidden Falls (photo by Fabio Somenzi).
(21) Me climbing (photo by Fabio Somenzi).
(22) Is that foot placement really going to hold? (Photo by Fabio Somenzi.)
(23) Another shot of me climbing (photo by Fabio Somenzi).
(24) Another shot of me climbing (photo by Chris Gerber).
(25) Another shot of me climbing (photo by Chris Gerber).
(26) Fabio climbs.
(27) Another shot of Fabio climbing.
(28) One last shot of Hidden Falls as we hike out.

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