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Endangered Species Video
/in Blog, Video/by Bayard RussellEndangered Species from Bayard Russell on Vimeo. A short video about Matt Horner, Matt McCormick and I’s ascent of a route we called Endangered Species on Poke-O-Moonshine in New York’s Adirondacks. This stunning 65m strip of thin ice came in about 30′ right of the famous Gorillas in the Mist. Gorrillas is a Jeff Lowe […]
MWV Ice Fest
/in Blog, Events/by Bayard RussellThis weekend come up and check out the showcase of the place, and the community, I call home at the 18th Annual MWV Ice Fest. I’ll be teaching two mixed climbing clinics, one Friday, and one Saturday, followed by a steep ice clinic Sunday. Come on up and hang out for the day, we can […]
Endangered Species
/in Blog/by Bayard RussellWhen Matt McCormick, Matt Horner and I went to Poke-O-Moonshine on the Friday before the Mountain Fest, there were a couple of things that we did do, and a couple of things that we didn’t do; here’s the deal. We did climb the corner system that is the first part of Gorrillas in the Mist. […]