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    TR: Pleiades Canyon

    We did Pleiades Canyon on Saturday. The ice was fat, and made for some good climbing. Had a great time!
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    sweet, jumar

    looks incredible!

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    Awesome. Looks totally fun.

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    One more thing to add to my list. Life's too short!!

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    Very cool. That little dude is awesome!
    The man thong is wrong.

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    Ditto on all the "awesome's"


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    Very cool. Looks like a lot of fun.
    -- Austin

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    Super pix, thanks for sharing 'em

    ... and a great outing by the young man!

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    Cool. I showed this to my 8 yr old and he is now ready to give that a whirl.
    I couldn't tell from the pictures whether you rappeled down and then climbed back out or did you take the trail back up?

    Mark

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    Quote Originally Posted by moab mark
    Cool. I showed this to my 8 yr old and he is now ready to give that a whirl.
    I couldn't tell from the pictures whether you rappeled down and then climbed back out or did you take the trail back up?

    Mark
    We went back up bc we wanted to climb

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    Very nice - the little guy is so cute!
    Some people "go" through life and other people "grow" through life. -Robert Holden

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    awesome pics....beautiful ice !!

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    That looks like a blast! i'd like to give it a try someday : )

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    Wow, that little kid is a trooper!

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    Curious if anyone has any idear of what kind of condition Pleiades might be right now?

    Did Hidden Haven by Brian Head last weekend, and, its in pretty good shape, but, was pretty warm on the hike out. My bet is its short for this world as an ice route.

    Pleiades is up pretty high. Shane, you get any read on conditions up near the La Sals from being in Moab last weekend? Still snowy up there, I'd assume.

    Jumar, what would your rate it as an ice climb? Looks like it could be WI 4? Harder? Easier? How reasonable would it be to just go to the bottom and climb up it? Any sketchyness for topping out a pitch? How was the water flow in winter? Did you bust through any place too deep?

    Kinda got the bug for a combo platter multi sport weekend. Could climb and ski, ice climb and rock climb, all the above...

    Thanks for any thoughts!

    -Brian in SLC

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    Climbed Pleiades on Saturday. Its in good shape. The middle pitch wasn't in (is it ever?). We left a rope fixed there to TR back up the rock to the climber's left, which, probably is rated 5.7/5.8ish with a fairly fun belly flop move. Given the number of crampon scratches there, it'd been done that way a fair bit.

    Rest of the ice is in good condition. Gives about 5/6 short pitches of climbing. I'd guess WI 3, for how short the pitches are. Neat, and, the approach in deep snow is now packed out (!).

    I'll try to pop up some photo's.
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    Nice to see you get that one checked off on your to-do list.

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    See if I can link a couple photos...

    Bit o' snow on the approach (not the way you want the day to start...but...thankfully it got more supportable around the corner):
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