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Standard hive management over here differs quite a lot. It goes like this:
A1) In early Spring (first pollen foraging) the broodnest is reduced to about 6-7 deep frames. All other frames are removed and tucked away for splits that are made later in the year. A follower board reduces hive volume and thus keeps the broodnest pretty warm.
Side note: I kept bees on three brood boxes and I saw the broodnest spreading throughout all the boxes. But the overall amount brood does not differ from a single. Same for the amount of bees. I did shook swarms in early Spring to compare singles versus triples and in neither of them were more bees. Just the same amount of bees. Crowded in a single or spread in a three box hive. (As mentioned above I also find the bottom box completely empty in early spring.)
A2) Before the first flow (fruit trees) two or three shallows with empty comb are given. Because the broodnest volume has been shrinked, the bees more than readily take the supers.
A3) Before the first flow stops, a comb or two of capped brood is taken from every hive and combined into a brood comb tower with or without a queen. It is called "careful bleeding". This slows swarm preparations.
A4) At the end of the main flow all swarms cells are broken down one time. If you use high bred Buckfast bees the bees won't draw swarm cells anymore.
A5) Done. Average honey production: 220 pounds per hive. (One hive consists of one deep, three shallows.)
This is a pretty easy management and you have no swarms (less than 10 % if any). It works with breeder queens.
Another standard management is (used with Carnolian bees for example, which have a slightly more tendency to swarm and which do not react to cell destruction as good):
B1) At first pollen flight reduce the broodnest as above.
B2) Super the wintered early before the first flow with whatever you have, drawn or foundation.
B3) Wait until the brood box/boxes are full of capped comb and the colony almost reaches population maximum. (Some simply wait for swarm cells, but it is safer to act before.) Mostly right in a main flow. Remove the old queen with two frames of capped brood for a split. Wait 9 days. Break all queen cells. Wait another 9 days. Break all queen cells. Give a mated young queen. Done for the year. There is no more swarming. During the 18 days of queenlessness a huge amount of nectar is stored into the hive. Bees forage like crazy if there is little brood to care for.
A variation is to break cells after 7 days except one like in the MDA splitter method and let them raise their own queen. In my experience this lowers the overall honey production due to the brood break for a month, because the young queen has to mate and fed before she can start fully laying. I also have the impression, queens lay better in the coming spring and not in their first year. But this is another topic.
Method A works very well and with little work and material involved, if you have high breed bees. Method B works well even with mongrels of all sorts.
Checkerboarding has been tried by quite a lot of people in Germany, but it didn't work out well. Even with experienced beekeepers, the reason why I didn't try it yet. (I trust those people, which I know personally and I respect their beekeeping wisdom.) Maybe details have been lost in translation or it simply doesn't work with the type of bees (most beekeepers keep Carnolians) and/or with the kind of flows we have here? Don't know.
Since method A and B are not very work intensive I am eager to listen how they compare with checkerboarding in time and material consumption and honey production per hive. Also I want to understand exactly how checkerboarding works, since I simply do not catch the idea behind it. So I may try it next Spring with some hives for a first test. For this I will post the configuration of the hives and hope for answers how to organize and manage them properly. Hopefully with the help of the inventors I will make checkerboard work. Thanks in advance.
Also I found this on beesouce:
Is it still valid? Or are there new findings?
Maybe timing is crucial. So lets see how the bee season goes where I live.
- First new brood. Very small patches of brood, though.
Beginning of March:
- First cleansing flights (in 2013 followed by a second cold snap and a second cleansing flight at April the 6th.)
- First drone brood. March, the 27th. (In 2013: April, 18rd)
- First nectar flow. March, the 27th. (In 2013: April, 23rd)
- First swarm cells (cups) visible April, 6th (In 2013: April, the 22nd)
- First drones flying April, the 21st. (In 2013: May, the 5th but just a few)
- About 18,000 brood cells in 2013: April, the 22nd
- Strong flow (main flow in 2012) May, the 8th
- First swarm May, the 20th. (2012 and 2013)
Bees swarm at around end of May here, when the first major flow ends. The dates shown are observed with colonies, that are not manipulated at all, just observed. (Fixed comb hives. No swarm preventions.)
So what do you suggest, which is the time/date to checkerboard? I usually winter in singles but I do have some hives on two deep brood boxes this winter. Would you consider the doubles better for the experiment?
If I understand correctly, end of February beginning of March (8th). Your cycles look very close to mine.
Brian Cardinal
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Thank you for the very detailed and informative post! I am in Zone 5, and yes, the timing of brood and flows is very close. The difference is that, although I have a flow in May (fruit bloom), the main flow is in June and the swarm preps are also mostly in June. Very interesting, though that method A is very close to what G. M. Doolittle did. I will have to work on it to see how to map the manipulations based on my flows.
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I use only CB technique in my hives and it works. Not one swarm. The only thing that does not work for me is to have brood box full of uncured nectar or weak syrup going into the winter. Unlike Walt's area, our humidity here goes through the roof in the winter, so I need to have empty cells and capped or near capped honey to keep the moisture down. Some here only checkeboard 5 frames in the middle and that seems to accomplish the goal.
Also, I think the key to an earlier comment of an empty supper vs CB super is that they use the adjacent frame to feed brood, yet keep the broodnest compact. Just empty cells require more transportation to feed larvae.
BernhardHeuvel, we had our first pollen flight on March 8 in 2013. In 10 days my Carnie queens had about 2 frames of capped brood. I checkerboarded around 24th of March it worked out just fine. As long as the family is in one box and I don't have to disturb the brood nest, I find that I am early enough.
I checkerboarded my 5-frame April 10 packages and they did not swarm either.
This is it.
Again...Bologna. You most certainly did imply that what I said was directed at you. I allowed you to have your fun and your say and line up your ducks in support of your theory. I've never said your nectar management theory won't prevent swarming. I do maintain that checkerboarding isn't the only successful plan. I have disagreed with your theory of swarm repro c/o date and your idea that any swarms after that time are something other than repro-swarms.
This post was started using my name. It was started with the intention of belittling me and what I said. You took what I said in another thread out of context and used it to elevate you and your beekeeping dogma. I have photos of skyscraper hives too Walt, but won't bother posting them as you'll just find some other way to devalue what I believe to be true. Do you make more honey per colony than I do Walt? Gosh I hope so. 20 colonies is nothing but spit in the wind. How much total food do you make for your fellow human beings? How many families do you support with your work Walt?
You took what I said out of context. The original thread was about raising queen stock that wouldn't swarm. All stocks will swarm. Yes one can breed stocks that will have a lower propensity to swarm, but the swarming instinct will never be bred out of bees. Anyone who says they can is either a fool or a liar. Period.
Now, when I said that, you got your shorts in a bunch...because I said it, and used what I said to attack me. I took great delight in fantasizing about the wedgie you have, and it really got your blood pressure up when I mentioned luncheon meat, eh Walt. Whatever.
You wanted me to have the last word?? Again, Bologna. You ended this discussion a couple times already. And you and Walt's-Son-In-Law continue to add a bit more. Nice photos of skyscrapers Walt, but it doesn't mean much, really. I have seen plenty from other beekeepers who never heard of "checkerboarding" or some repro swarm c/o date theory.
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these are important and intriguing topics for discussion, my hope is that the dialogue will continue....
many thanks to all for contributing.
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>>squarepeg said...might the difference in observations have something to do with the difference in nectar flows between tennessee and vermont? in the southeast we have 2-3 months of spring flow, 1-2 months of summer dearth, and 1-2 months of fall flow, whereas in the northeast i believe there is less interruption through the spring-summer-fall flows. it does seem counter to the bee's well being to issue a repro swarm during dearth conditions. perhaps the cut-off has something to do with that, and the smaller swarms issued at those times are more supercedure in nature. i observed queen cells in a few of my colonies at the end of may that either did not swarm or issued such a small swarm that i did not notice a drop in population, nor did i find backfilling in the brood nest in these hives.<<
No, it has to do with Walt and hid dogma. Okay, a swarm that leaves before Walt's repro swarm c/o date is a reproductive swarm. What about the swarms that leave after that? Do you think that they are all tiny "supercedure" swarms? I've seen many large swarms come from strong colonies and strong multi-story nucs after Walt's date...adjusted to my area by bloom period. In fact, a strong colony on a strong flow with no overhead nectar storage will swarm. It doesn't matter if it's May, June, July, or August. So what do we call those mid to late summer swarms? Post-Repros?
>>i'm not sure i've ever heard walt make this claim, only that he was successful preventing swarming up to 100% in most seasons. i think most will agree that the swarming instinct cannot be bred out of bees.<<
I have no doubt that checkerboarding will help prevent swarming as will any nectar management that allows the bees timely overhead nectar storage. But you've hit the nail on the head...
"He was successful at preventing swarming up to 100% in most seasons". Most seasons SP. Not all seasons...same as any other viable plan.
>>like most things beekeeping there are lots of variables and a plethora of approaches that work<<
Ya think?
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Have not seen that sketch in a long time. It is basically correct, but there have been some changes since it showed our wintering configurations. We now use only one config.
Coming out of winter, from the bottom, we have an empty shallow of drawn comb, the deep brood chamber, and two shallows of capped honey. In stores, that's equivalent to a double deep, properly prepared in the fall. In this area, we don't need the extra shallow of honey overhead, but it insures we have a full box of capped honey in late winter to checkerboard. We only had to sacrifice that extra box of honey for the first season of config change. After that, the increased production more than compensated for the loss.
Investment in future gain.
A pollen box was added below the basic deep to improve wintering. In late winter that's the empty box of drawn comb at the bottom. During the spring buildup, when the first shallow above the deep is filled with brood by expansion, that shallow is moved below the deep. Taking advantage of colony preference for rearing brood in a deep, the pollen box is backfilled with pollen in early spring, while pollen is plentiful. The pollen in the pollen box is only filled about a half cell depth and is fully fermented - giving it a dark, ugly look. We believe it is reserved for the fall buildup to rear wintering bees - consumption of that "bee bread" starts in early August, and the box is empty going into winter. We leave it in place overwinter and it is on site for checkerboarding in the following season.
If you would like to test CB, nobody is more interested in the results than I. Would be happy to help in any way I can. We don't get many reports of it not working.
I asked earlier if you were using "jumbos." Some areas of Europe use the larger Dadant box style. Don't remember a response to the question. CB would be difficult to apply to that type overwintering set up. And you did mention wintering in singles.
You will if you put a queen excluder under the box and the queen inside of it. Sorry, could not resist.
But all else being equal, I have observed that a queen will be found in a deep box more often than a medium one. I cannot per se ask a queen if she likes it there. I cannot even ask her entourage if they force her into a deep box. But what we cannot ask we can observe, no?
Well if you are going to use queen excluders then maybe what you observe is a result of what you do. Set your hive up with a deep on the top and four mediums on the bottom and then tell us what your observations are.
Don,t screw with the hive. Leave it alone. Just walk away.
Brian Cardinal
Zone 5a, Practicing non-intervention beekeeping
You mean that after checkerboarding you have another broodnest manipulation? I thought all you had to do was checkerboard, and then super properly for the rest of the flow. You place the top brood box (shallow of brood from expansion) below the bottom brood box. The queen moves up to establish the deep as her central brood chamber. Is that correct?
This sounds just like what I do. Super early...checkerboarding is a form of early supering. Reverse brood chamber...move shallow of brood below deep chamber.
And what happens if you don't move that super of brood below the deep?
There are indeed many ways to prevent swarming. But there are only a few ways that prevent swarming AND make an optimum crop of honey. I think this is one time I would agree that it is not possible to breed the swarming propensity out of bees, but it still makes sense to breed bees with LESS of a swarming propensity because it makes colony manipulations to prevent swarming much more effective.
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I am enthralled by stunning photos of nature. You probably are, too. Gorgeous images of landscapes, animals, plants, and exotic, undisturbed places adorn our walls as well as our advertisements, calendars, screen savers, and museum galleries. We all seem hooked.
Dramatic images of nature help shape our consciousness about the physical world, and classic landscape photos by C. E. Watkins, Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, and Robert Glenn Ketchum play a key part in modern cultural literacy about the environment and our evolving relationship to it. For this very reason, contemplating nature within the frame of photography also invites us to consider what sort of environmental understanding of our changing world nature photography does provide.
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WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT: A History of Blackouts in America. David E. Nye. xii + 292 pp. The MIT Press, 2010. $27.95.
In the developed world, we take the electrical grid for granted. The power flowing through it, like the blood coursing through our veins, is out of sight and out of mind; not thinking about it frees us to worry about other things. Thus we have little awareness of the fact that the force lifting elevators, lighting rooms, warming food, pumping water and powering laptops right now is an artificial, technological contrivance. It's only when the grid fails, and we no longer have the power it provides at our disposal, that we appreciate it in full. David Nye's new book, When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America, is about what happens when that comes to pass.
A blackout is not just an engineering failure. According to Nye, it can also be understood "as a disruption of social experience, as a military tactic, as a crisis in the networked city, . . . as the outcome of inconsistent political and economic decisions," and more. He takes as his subject not merely the mechanics of blackouts. Ambitiously, he attempts to explore "different social constructions of artificial darkness."
Nye is a leading historian of energy. In a series of books that includes Electrifying America (1990) and American Technological Sublime (1994), he has imaginatively tracked the evolution of powered technology and its impact on society. He is a master of the splendid factoid. Here are a few from When the Lights Went Out: In 2001, a typical family used more energy in a month than their grandparents used in a year back in 1940. Due to the popularity of air conditioning, on hot days an increase in temperature of 1 degree Fahrenheit results in a 2 percent increase in demand for electric power. And for every degree the temperature rises above 70 degrees Fahrenheit, the amount of smog in the air increases by 3 percent.
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Nye shows that the blackouts of the 1930s mostly had to do with military exercises. In the buildup to World War II, cities were already expecting aerial bombardment and began practicing self-imposed darkness as an evasionary measure. Later, as grids became more complex, blackouts resulted from an inadequate balance of supply with demand or from poorly designed monitoring equipment.
Nye makes a few minor mistakes. For example, he refers to electricity production in the United States jumping from 161,000 gigawatts in 1939 to 271,000 gigawatts in 1945, when he presumably meant to say gigawatt-hours. And in describing people's behavior during the 1977 blackout in New York City, he says that "a significant minority of the population saw the power failure . . . as an opportunity for looting or arson." Use of the term "significant minority" would seem to suggest that perhaps 20 percent or more participated, but this seems unlikely. Were there really millions of looters?
A more important problem is the book's lack of sustained narrative. The reader has few stories to follow. Each chapter centers on a theme (the grid, war, accident, crisis, rolling blackouts, terror, greenouts), but the chronology often jumps back and forth across decades. And those facts, those fascinating facts, are constantly pouring forth as if to fill some large spreadsheet, with technical innovations running vertically and social consequences running horizontally.
Yet the facts, in the end, are what make the book a worthwhile enterprise. Nye does a fine job of describing the gigantic overhaul of the power industry over the past decade and a half. During this time the original utility companies—many of which once commanded monopoly control over the energy supply of cities—were obliged by market forces or by statute to unbundle their services, sometimes selling off their power plants or transmission lines.
In some respects, this restructuring of the electricity business has streamlined operations. But it has also had negative consequences, as Nye's book reveals. Individual energy companies, relieved of the comprehensive responsibility to make, transmit and deliver electric power, have little incentive to build more lines, given that those lines can be used by any other company that wants to send power across the country. Add to that the great difficulty of winning approval to build transmission lines through heavily populated stretches of real estate, along with an ongoing jurisdictional battle between federal and state regulators, and what you get is gridlock. Construction of transmission lines is falling further behind the construction of new generating capacity. Like the monitoring of flights in the airspace over busy metropolitan airports, the dispatching of power across regional power pools, which takes place in darkened rooms that look just like air-traffic control centers, has become more challenging. Increasingly, purchases of blocks of power from distant generators are cancelled or delayed owing to temporary congestion on intervening power lines.
Investment risk and regulatory uncertainty increasingly discourage the building of needed new electricity superhighways. Existing lines become more heavily used. As a consequence, most large blackouts now come about because of disruptions on transmission lines. Furthermore, over the past two decades blackouts have increased in size. And a 2005 study by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory estimated that electric power outages cost American businesses nearly $80 billion per year.
Nye ably compares the deregulation of electricity markets to the deregulation of the telephone and airline industries. One difference is that the delivery of electricity to a home is still rather a local thing—unlike, say, a phone call between New York and California. And the aviation business, even though it has undergone much restructuring of its own, is still under the watchful eye of the Federal Aviation Administration, which sees to safety and routing issues. There is no such guarantor of electrical reliability. The nonprofit, quasi-governmental agency established for this purpose, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, has guidelines for avoiding blackouts, but many people believe that the penalties for shoddy operations should be stiffened. The power business for the most part is left to regulate itself.
The book ends with a look at things the consumer can do. One is to participate in "greenouts"—voluntary blackouts in which homes or businesses go without electricity for a few hours or a day. Another is to invest in energy-efficient buildings. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, buildings use about 70 percent of all electricity. Thus even small improvements in lighting, heating or insulation can result in big reductions in fuel costs and pollution.
A greenout is worthwhile if it enhances public understanding of energy issues, and in the United States public understanding does appear to have increased slightly. Americans are buying more-efficient appliances and installing fluorescent bulbs. But this isn't enough. Many European countries with a lifestyle comparable to that of the United States use half the electricity per capita and suffer far fewer blackouts. Europeans pay much more in energy taxes, yes, but this revenue is put to good use in infrastructure investment.
Greenouts are a good way of temporarily underscoring our spendthrift ways. But citizens of the United States and their elected officials need to tackle larger tasks, such as capping carbon dioxide emissions and mandating higher efficiency standards for power plants. Blackouts that leave cities in the dark are disruptive; a dearth of ideas and leadership in Congress is a more profound kind of blackout.
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Jan 30, 2013 at 8:29 pm #1298670
Im interested in tacking on a few 14ers to my JMT trip this august, and im wondering if anyone here has any info or first hand experience on getting North Palisade, Thunderbolt, Starlight, Polemonium, Sill, and Middle Palisade from the JMT (or sierra high route since that goes through the same area). Im hoping to find some maps and photos of the routes, and some info on what kind of gear i'll need to bring. i can climb 5.11 sport, however i would like to keep it at 4th class or lower to reduce the amount of technical gear i'll need.
Thanks!Jan 31, 2013 at 4:45 pm #1949444
Here's a link to an excellent article/trip report by Don Wilson and Alan Dixon that includes an ascent of Mt Sill from Lower Palisade Lake via Cirque and Potluck Passes on the SHR. It should get you started, not to mention a darn good read in its own right.
http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/sierra-prime-trip-planning.htmlJan 31, 2013 at 4:50 pm #1949446
Alex WallaceBPL Member
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A good overview on Summit Post > Sierra Nevada > Palisades.Jan 31, 2013 at 7:43 pm #1949502
"Im interested in tacking on a few 14ers to my JMT trip this august,"
While we're on the subject, there are some good ones further south as well. I don't know if you're going SOBO or NOBO, but if it's SOBO and you've got a day or two to spare at the end, Tyndall, Williamson, and Russell would be excellent peaks to bag. Tyndall is about an hour east of the JMT, via the Shepherd Pass trail. It has at least one class 2 route and several class 3 routes on it. Another hour or less would put you in position to climb Mt Williamson via the West Face route(class 3). Williamson is a spectacular mountain and, at 14,375', the second highest peak in the Sierra. It would be a worthy addition to your agenda.
Russell would take you a day to get in position and climb it, followed by a half day to get back on the JMT. It goes at class 3 via the East Ridge, which is extremely exposed. It is situated in a gorgeous setting at the head of Wallace Lake Basin.
Anyway, just a couple of ideas for an area close to the JMT that you may not have considered.Jan 31, 2013 at 9:01 pm #1949527
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lots of great peak to bag besides the 14ers.
The Citadel is in the general Palisade area and rises dramatically over the JMT.
but you need to cross the river to get to it. excellent views from the summit.Feb 2, 2013 at 11:37 am #1950071
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Get your hands on "The High Sierra" by Secor.
A great resource for climbing in the Sierra.
http://www.amazon.com/The-High-Sierra-Passes-Trails/dp/0898869714/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1359833792&sr=8-1&keywords=the+high+sierraFeb 3, 2013 at 11:45 am #1950349
thanks for the responses so far. my plan is to hit the harder ones in the palisades first, then get a few more of them further south as time permits. im focusing on the 14ers since I've been doing a lot of them in colorado and i'd like to get a few of the California ones too. i know there are lots of great mountains under 14,000, and hopefully i'll get to them eventually, but i will only have so much time off work.
Tom, if i was to do Russell, wouldn't it make sense to do it from guitar/arctic lake on the west side. it looks like the west couloir is rated class 4. if i was to do the east ridge, what would the route look like to/from the JMT?Feb 3, 2013 at 4:45 pm #1950489
"Tom, if i was to do Russell, wouldn't it make sense to do it from guitar/arctic lake on the west side. it looks like the west couloir is rated class 4. if i was to do the east ridge, what would the route look like to/from the JMT?"
Hi Ted,
I'm not familiar with the west couloir, so I can't help you there. There are 2 ways to access the East Ridge, one via Upper Boy Scout Lake on the climbers approach to Whitney and one via Wallace Lake Basin. The latter is the one that would make more sense if you were SOBO on the JMT. You would leave the JMT where Wallace Creek crosses it and follow a way trail up Wallace Creek to Wallace Lake. From there pick your way up to Russell-Carillon Col above Tulainyo Lake and scramble the East Ridge to the summit. It is an ~4 mile hike up Wallace Creek to Wallace Lake, and less than an hour to get up to the col from there. The trail can be sketchy at times, but it is hard to get lost. just take what the terrain gives you and stay parallel to the creek. You will be well acclimated by then, and could do the hike and climb in one day, stay overnight, and retrace your steps the next morning. Wallace Lake Basin is drop dead beautiful and well worth the detour. I think it would be a much more aesthetic route to tell you the truth. Once you get up around Guitar Lake, the scenery is not all that much to write home about, IMO.Feb 4, 2013 at 11:54 pm #1950945
that route up to Wallace lake makes perfect sense now that i look at it. thanks for the info, i'd rather go up the more aesthetic way and its also rated a little easier too. after looking at the climb, the north ridge also seems like it would go at class three and is closer to wallace lake than the carillon-russell saddle and the east ridge.
the elevation change and the mileage looks like its within the daytrip relm for me, which is very appealing too. i figured the route from guitar lake would be a half day or so, where this is looking like something closer to a full day.
the thunderbolt to sill traverse and middle palisade still look like the biggest obstacles. has anyone done these as a part of their JMT thru hike?Feb 5, 2013 at 4:00 pm #1951135
"that route up to Wallace lake makes perfect sense now that i look at it. thanks for the info, i'd rather go up the more aesthetic way and its also rated a little easier too. after looking at the climb, the north ridge also seems like it would go at class three and is closer to wallace lake than the carillon-russell saddle and the east ridge.
the elevation change and the mileage looks like its within the daytrip relm for me, which is very appealing too. i figured the route from guitar lake would be a half day or so, where this is looking like something closer to a full day."
It sounds to me like you understand your options very well. Now all you have to do is figure out what works for you best and go for it. Best of luck and have a great trip, Ted.Mar 4, 2013 at 12:03 pm #1961287
Ashley LaurenceBPL Member
This is not answering your question but I hoe you will find it useful. My parter, her brother, and I did a northbound hike on part of the SHR and found the south side of passes much easier to climb up than the north sides were to go down. The big difference is the south sides were much smother and more gradual due to the freeze thaw cycle while the north sides had rugged talus slopes which, when combined with the extra strain of heading down hill, made for some very strenuous, unpleasant, and uncomfortable descents. It was bad enough I had a mutiny on my hands and had to reroute us to JMT. I suspect, and my wife agrees, that if we had gone southbound, it would have been much more pleasant.
Also, depending on your acclimatization, southbound has the advantage that you generally are taking on higher and higher passes and campsites along the way. When I hiked the JMT I found this allowed me to largely avoid AMS.
My 2 cents worth answering an unasked question. ;)Mar 6, 2013 at 1:03 am #1962004
originally i had planned this as a southbound hike, however we did not get our permits through the lottery like i hoped, so we are going to be doing it as a northbound hike out of a different trailhead. Both me and my buddy are doing as many colorado 14ers as we can this year (I've done 15 since November, 25 since august) and we are both training for a sub 2hr half marathon in early august. so we will be very acclimatized and in great shape, so i don't think we'll have any issues with going south to north. considering many PCT guys go south to north every year, i imagine its just fine.
I actually have two new questions. one is how is the route from Whitney to Russell back to Whitney? i know its kinda silly, but i really want to get Russell while im in the area. I think the option would be to descend the mountaineers route of Whitney, then climb up the mount Russell from iceberg lake, then either climb back to the top of Whitney and descend the normal west route to crabtree meadows along the normal JMT route (which i would prefer), or climb down to the Wallace lakes area and follow wallace creek back to the JMT. If i did the Whitney-Russell-Whitney route, i could stash most of my gear near the top of Whitney, and then do the climbing between them with minimal gear.
My other question is if anyone knows of a way to do a food drop along the JMT inside of Kings Canyon NP? Preferably at Vidette meadows/Charlotte lake ranger stationMar 6, 2013 at 1:54 pm #1962248
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"My other question is if anyone knows of a way to do a food drop along the JMT inside of Kings Canyon NP? Preferably at Vidette meadows/Charlotte lake ranger station"
Traditionally, the JMT junction to Charlotte Lake has been the popular spot for a food delivery. If you can get friends to hike over Kearsarge Pass, hand you a food bag, and then depart, then that works pretty good. Alternatively, some people have the local horse packer service do the delivery, although that is hugely expensive.
Last August I was passing that junction, and the Charlotte Lake ranger had notes stuck onto the trail junction signs. Apparently somebody had come over Kearsarge, left a food bag unattended inside one of the Charlotte Lake lockers, and then it was sitting there for days. That is against NPS rules, so the ranger enforced that by confiscating the food bag and tacking up the notes.
So, yes, that is the right spot, but you have to be careful about how you do it.
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Hi Ted, California 14ers are different monsters than the Colorado variety and I say that with experience! I might recommend not attempting the Palisade Traverse from the JMT. The climbing isn't especially hard but the route finding is critical and the rock is not always pristine. You'd likely want some light climbing gear as well which I can't imagine you'd want to backpack with. Another problem with the Palisade traverse is that you'll want to finish it in a day, otherwise you'll need to bivy and water isn't readily available. If you are going to do the traverse, I'd set up a "base camp" at upper barrett lake then ascend to thunderbolt pass to start the traverse. The talus SLOG after Sill might very well be the hardest part of the traverse!
If you decide not to do the traverse and still want to hit a Palisade 14er I'd set my eyes on the southwest chute route on Sill. No technical gear required and the views are amazing… but you do have to contend with a hideous talus slog, both ways. You might also consider North Palisades West Chute or Clyde Variation of the West Chute.
Middle Palisade isn't a reasonable option from the west side as a JMT peak-bag. The rock is very loose and the climbing is precarious. You'd want gear, a helmet, and probably a partner.
A little bit further south you have Split Mountain which you should absolutely run up. Not technical in any sense but it's a very nice peak to bag with a good view.
Further south are Tyndall and Williamson. These are both easily attainable from the JMT and both could be done in one day if your route finding is solid and you're quick on your feet. Start with Williamson (it's more technical/committing) and go up the west face. The chute on the way up the west face is a scree/talus slog but once you get to the head wall you're met with some fun sierra 3.11a to the summit plateau. Tyndall is a little bit less committing and takes considerably less time. Go up either the Northwest Ridge (less technical, but longer) or the North Rib (more technical, faster). The North Rib has some very interesting climbing. Highly recommended!
Russell should also be considered. Going from the wallace lakes (stop here if you like to fish… was passing by here on the Sierra Crest Route last year and the fish were HUGE) your options are the North Ridge or East Ridge. Both are wonderful Class 3 climbs. The east ridge is a little slabby at points and throws some impressive exposure your direction but is not very technical. From the summit you could either descend back to the wallace lakes or descend the South Face Right Side chute which tops out between the summit ridge boulder crux and the east summit. You might also consider ascending the South Face Right Side Chute from Guitar Lake. Full disclosure, I've never down climbed the south face chute, only ascended.
Whitney is pretty obvious! Also hit Muir since it's right off the trail. Start where the cairns are. It takes all of 15 minutes.
For spice you could even include Langley if you're willing to walk along the PCT a few extra miles. Downside is no warm burger to welcome your return to civilization. Langley could also easily be ascended in one day via the Cottonwood Lakes/Army Pass trail.
If you do the Thunderbolt to Sill Traverse, Split, Williamson, Langley, Russel, Whitney, and Langley… that's all but one Sierra 14er! Throw in White Mountain Peak as a post JMT "warm-down" and you'll only have two California 14ers to go!
Hopefully some of that was helpful!Apr 13, 2013 at 3:11 am #1976116
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I read your post a little further and I felt obliged to comment on this idea.
Don't do it! It's not worth it!
Okay, maybe that's a little bit harsh but I think you have much better options for tagging Russell.
Time-wise, I think you'd spend FAR more time descending Whitney's Mountaineers route and ascending Russell's east ridge then descending Russell's South Face Chute Right Side then the long and tedious slog back up to Whitney via the west side trail from Guitar Lake than you would if you just yoyo'd Russell from Guitar lake via the South Chute Right side. Or alternatively, take the longer option and hit Russell from Wallace Lake.
The Whitney/Russell/Whitney option you describe would require some seriously fast moving and you're at the whim of the weather. If things went south you're out of luck because you left your gear on top of Whitney. Additionally, cross country travel like you're describing takes a lot of time even if you have just a day pack. Also consider the hoards of people who frequent Whitney every day and the subsequent security of your gear. That's not a position you want to put yourself into.
A slightly more direct route between Whitney and Russell is Whitney's North Face but, The North Face of Whitney is nothing short of a cliff and slab-tacular route finders nightmare. It's incredibly slabby and you quickly run into frequent "nope that's definitely not climb-able" moments.
My three cents…YMMV
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ESPN - Scouts Inc. Update: Sixers vs. Pistons, Game 3 - NBA This analysis is pretty decent.
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"Don't believe for a minute that the Pistons have "learned their lesson" from Game 1. Learning lessons means not repeating destructive behavior, and the Pistons have been "learning" this lesson for the past four years." "The Pistons are treading in dangerous waters if they allow themselves any letdowns in this game. However, knowledge of that has never stopped them before." Nice to see that for once the writers have actually watched some Pistons' games.
I agree. There was a statement made by CB before game two that was a tad troubling to me. He said, "even if we go down 0-2, I believe we could still win the series"!! I have a problem with that statement. Is it me, or is that just plain dumb to say?
maybe game 4 but not this one.. maybe Pistons guys will be over confident again and this will be reason for a close game or a loss. I hope i am wrong
Being a pivotal games in the series, the key IMO is to match the energy of the Sixers early on in the game. I expect them to come out of the gate like a bat out of hell and Flip must ensure that the rotations and energy level is maintained at a high level to withstand the initial onslaught. If the Stones can keep the game close 1st half i.e. within a couple of buckets, they will take the game.
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I checked the score, and saw that Dice broke his nose, and Amir, and Aaron are still on the bench. Good job Flip! Play the starters to death, and the old guys. Keep your # 1 and # 2 defensive players glued to the bench. I'm not even going to get in on a rant of what Flip (and the players) did wrong this game, and what Mo Cheeks did right. Game 2 was fool's gold due to the high FG % and luck we had with winning w/ no bench production. I'm debating going over to the dark side, becoming a first round exit FF. At least that guarentees Flip getting fired. Get LB back. Lord knows Chauncey needs him. Reggie Evans for MVP!
anyone catch sheed taking a nap during half time? too good to trade, to unreliable to count on. its only a matter of time before some team unceremonially punches us in the face and wins four streight on us. i remember a quote by zeke from way back when he was talking about how you have to eat/slip/ live for a championship to win one in the nba. 2008 might not be as competetive as 1988, but i think the quote still has merit, and is as good of an explanation as any as to why these pistons will not be winning a championship this year.
I'm pissed at Flip for allowing Dice to break his nose.
That already happend last year.
Are you kidding me??! Way to a lay an egg, guys! Thumbs up!
Losses usually don't get to me, but this one did. I need to let the anger fade, watch BattleStar Galactica and collect my thoughts.
true or false: this was sheed's worst game ever as a piston?
In game one we bring in Theo and Hunter as our first subs along with Arvis as our bench; we get blown out. In game two we use Stuck, Max and leave Hunter and Theo on the bench; we blow them out. In game 3 we go back and do what we did in the game we lost; not the one we won. Can someone please explain this to me?????? Arvis is terrible for us right now. He should not see the floor. AA needs his minutes. Leave Hunter and Theo on the bench. Theo until we need him against a "real" big. Hunter til he retires. Why repeat what you did to lose instead of what you did to win????? This is why Flip must go!!!!!! Plain and simple.
This was first entire game I've been able to watch in weeks. Help me out, forumites. Who were those guys in blue out there?
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I hope I am wrong, but I do not think teams come back from losses like this. Every game it is different pistons that does not show up (most of the time 2 or 3 starters)...this is a team breakdown and a team that does not respond to the coach. Yes they won 59 games, but there is no way in hell that you lose to philly by 20 in a playoff game. I keep saying it, there is something wrong. Billups has not been the same since he had to go back to detroit for an emergency. He does not look like the same player. What has happened to billups. Sheed had a bad game, impossible to believe that dalembert and evans could get the best of our bigs. Sheed should be totally embarrassed. Lets see what happens Sunday. Unbelievable. GO Pistons
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