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Cheer mate! Most definitely a long term project :D

Sick track!

Awesome, thats so rad that you saw it!! Sick track, seemed to fit perfectly. Hope you dont mind that i chopped it up a bit to make it fit the length of the video haha

@@joecollinson6232 Not at all, I heard the edit, not so bad. :) I agree, the music suits the video very well. Thank you for choosing Devil's Water for that! Keep shreddin' all the best from Vancouver.

great track

@@superdad942 Thanks! :)

thanks chrystle! haha felt insane

Hell yeah! It for sure is a bit borderline 😅 who was it you were say by??

cheers! yeah easy to get lost as to whats going on without the photo!

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chur!!!!!

cheers bryce!

Cheers Shea- yeah was trying to recreate the stressed out but also super stoked vibe we were feeling on the face 😅

classic type 2 fun!

nice one! muchos planning......

Thanks man! Yeah was def a relief to get down to cinerama…..

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Yeah can't believe how lucky we got with the conditions , dreamy !

yeeeww! cheers bud!

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dream line!

chur!!

chur!

thanks! yeah hectic abseil...full committment!

Thanks Geoff! Yep next level pucker haha

Yeah was unreal , was expecting at least some sketchy jump turning!

yeah couldnt have asked for better conditions!! nice one

Yeah couldnt have asked for better conditions really, any more snow and stability / sluff would have been more of an issue, and zero ice. The face stayed cool but the very bottom is a bit more E facing so started to warm up by the time we got there

maybe they were hoping we were just gonna send the middle serac band instead of rap? its only 80 metres after all!

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Cheers man , yeah hopefully good beta for the next team 🥸

Chur!! We raised every tin we had and a goon bag 🤣

@@joecollinson6232 way to go,in true Kiwi style !!!

woop woop!

not gonna forget it any time soon :D

Yep was a stunner, pretty much zero wind on the summit ridge!

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chur!

THanks!! Ha yeah gonna be a tough one to top :D

@@joecollinson6232 Tasman?

@@katalystmediaNZ yeah there are some epic looking lines on there for sure!

Cheers !!

chur!!

Thanks Martin!! :D

Ha yeah it was definitely a full focus couple of hours - probably more mentally than physically tiring. I can't believe you climbed it!! Absolutely heroic

Chur!

chur!

opens up a lot of possibilities....dont let a big cliff half way down the line stop you from skiing it!!

Cheers sue!!

the maddest of cookies. and we were trying to hoon over them as fast as possible to get out from under those seracs...definitely got the old heart rate going

Thanks dude !

@@joecollinson6232 how did you find skiing with the ice axes in hand at the 1 minute mark? I've often wondered whether doing so with the axes strapped to the poles might make it a little easier to handle.

@@LukeFrisken yep its a tricky one - my personal take on skiing with axes is that if you fall when actually skiing at any speed on steep terrain theres zero chance your going to self arrest with it, so for me the use of the axes are 1) if you hit a slightly firm / icy bit when going slowly you can stop, dagger in the pick and help yourself sidestep down and 2) if you hit a bare patch of glacier ice just under the snow (what we were really scared of on this route) you can swing tools in and clip to them to let you get some screws / anchor in and switch to crampons. that second job isnt possible if they are strapped to the poles, but the first one is. so depending on what your concerns are i do sometimes strap! on the caroline wanted full use of the tools so had to put up with holding onto both

@@joecollinson6232 Hi Joe, thanks great feedback! I've spent quite a bit of time mulling the ideas over in my head, and it's great to get your view. I was also figuring that the axe is almost useless for self arrest if for a fall awkwardly at speed, but it seems like having it holstered behind the shoulder can also be convenient for when it's needed without getting in the way too much of the ski movements.

@@LukeFrisken yeah totally , behind the shoulder is another good option if your not gonna need it super quickly (although I've heard somr horror stories about people falling with the axe stashed there!)

Thanks bud !

ahhhhh man that sucks but looks like normal life is gonna be back soon....get planning those missions to get you through lockdown!

One up from skinny ledgends .???

thanks!!

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Cheers! Haha yep exactly

definitely a bit of a sword of damocles situation.....good motivation to move fast!

yeah it was just 2 weeks ago, 21 october. spring is the best time for these kinds of lines! generally reduces the avalanche risk vs winter, and when warmer the snow tends to stick to the ice on the face so dont get just bare ice!

Yeah for sure, the mind game is a massive part of it, knowing exposure is below you can really get into your head. For me was a case of slowly building it up over years with progressively more and more exposure until you desensitise to it…..but tbh it always good to keep a healthy bit of fear to keep the focus on point!

@@joecollinson6232 fair enough!

thanks man! top rap was 80m so had to make 2x anchors, we left a picket at the very top as there wasnt any ice where we wanted to rap from , and then 2x v threads for the second one once we were into the glacier ice of the main face

Yeah we were pretty cooked but the conditions were so good we pulled ourselves together to ski the mini Caroline line from the e ridge the next morning with will George and clem , got a vid from that too gonna upload today! Sam would have been all over it but his boot broke , gutted

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/la-GqNqf0LfGoKs.html&ab_channel=JoeCollinson vid from the following day!

I was actually in the hut with those guys when they skiied that line! Its a great line (we actually skiied it the next day after skiing the Caroline) but Im sure they would be the first to say it isnt a full descent of the Caroline. The gained the E ridge from the snowfields under the E face and then dropped straight down to the Caroline glacier from there, so only about half the way up and avoids all the serac bands of the upper and middle face. They came planning to ski the full caroline but it wasnt in condition that year - definitely the biggest challenge for us was waiting for everything to line up conditions wise

@@joecollinson6232 thanks, I’d previously seen a video which from memory stated it was a descent of the Caroline Face, implying (no doubt unwittingly) the full face.

haha heli lift in is actually prob cheaper than an average day pass! i think we ended up like 180NZD each or something to fly in?? ski trip on a budget :D

didnt leave too much stuff - picket at the summit and a v thread, then for the middle rap (which was 80m so 2x raps in a row) left thread at the top and a thread and 1x screw for the last one (left an old screw, to save a bit of time hanging out under that serac that was ready to collapse at any minute). Actually managed to get the rope stuck pulling that last rap so ended up cutting and leaving 20m of one of our ropes, again just wanted to get out of there asap 😅 is now a litte memento on the face you can see on the flight in

@@joecollinson6232 Thanks for the answer. Cheers 🍻🎉

thanks man!

Thanks! I did use a prussik on the raps and would always advise using one! I extend my atc on my PAS and attach the prussik to the belay loop for these kind of raps. Cant quite see it in the vid! I personally prefer that to the prussik on leg loop as i feel to be a true backup it has to be attached to a rated part of the harness ie not the leg loop

no sadly not, ive spent a couple of seasons out in chamonix but the conditions never lined up for mallory! its high up on the list though for sure amazing looking line. and being able to access it after stepping off a cable car is insane

We were waiting for a long time! Had been looking at the line throughout a few winters and spring for a line through the ice, and waiting for a specific weather pattern to come through for stability and the snow to actually stick to ice- but even with all that you don't know for sure until you go up there and have a look as it's pretty remote to even get to the face. so right up until we touched the snow on the line were ready to turn around !

@@joecollinson6232 Well nice work, that’s a crazy line, I’m keen to ski some bigger lines myself (not this big haha) but I’m finding it hard to time it as I’m from Australia, for lines that are not quite this challenging but still steep like Western face of aspiring, East face of mount cook or single cone, do you think I should just book a trip in advance in October/November and hope for the best when I’m there, or even for these lines is last minute timing really crucial?

@@Maximilian_1 nice those are great goals to work towards! yep I think thats the best approach - if you can book a few weeks off dedicated just to that, book it for the right time of year and then cross fingers things are going to line up, and accept you may well end up not doing your primary objective (but have a few plan Bs lined up so that not doing the primary objective doesnt feel like a failure!). Id say for the E face Cook generally mid to late october is the highest chance of success. W face aspiring I think is easier to find good conditions on - sept through october looking for cold snow (it got skiied this year in august) and right through to december to ski it in corn. Single cone pretty much throughout the season really, probably by oct would think its starting to get too late. But if you came with those 3 objectives in mind theres a good chance youll get one of them done!

@@joecollinson6232 Thanks heaps for the advice, yeah the biggest trouble I’ve had is just trying to time things, good to hear you don’t think I need to go last minute to have a decent chance of success.

haha yeah that was fooking terrifying....we just hooned through it as fast as possible and got out from under it! going through all the debris at the bottom from old collapses was pretty stressfull

full focus!!

Thanks!! Ah thats awesome is a great goal to have : Was a very cool climb, definitely worth doing just as a climb without any skiing. The E ridge is a more technical climb than the linda which is the most common way people go up, mostly steep snow but we had a few hundred metres of ice at the top (WI2 mostly, steps of WI3) which we pitched. Probably the most common thing from the top of the E ridge is to continue with the grand traverse across the top of cook over to high peak and then down the linda which would be an amazing day out

@@joecollinson6232 thanks so much for your insight ! Great to see you living life to the absolute max!!

It often hard in NZ to get an accurate record of who first skiied what when (especially compared to Europe) - but the Caroline face probably has the most well documented history of any face in NZ and over the last decade had become a big focus for a number of high profile teams from around the world coming to try and get the first descent. After a number of unsuccessful attempts by very strong teams, Tom Grant, Ben Briggs and Enrico Mosetti competed their descent in October 2017 and was widely reported on by media across the world as the first decent. In 2019 Ross Hewit and Dave Searle skiied a line from the E ridge from just under half way up the Caroline, but no record of any other descents of the full face. But if someone had skiied it before that and kept it very under the radar would be great to know about it!

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😅 much safer!