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- From: davin@hardy.u.washington.edu (David Veale)
- Subject: Re: building an Ice Climbing tower.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.000218.14060@u.washington.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:02:18 GMT
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- ummorea0@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gene Moreau) writes:
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- >Hi! Since that we are stuck out here in the prairies our local section of
- >the Alpine Club of Canada is thinking about putting up an ice tower this
- >winter. The only ideas we have had is some sort of telephone pole
- >construction with chicken wire for the ice to stick to. What I am
- >wondering is has any one out there tried(successfully or otherwise) to
- >build one? If so please send me any construction ideas that you have.
-
- I remember reading a while about a guy out on the plains who had a
- concrete silo with rebar ladder rungs coming out of it; I don't know if it
- was on the inside or outside. He would drip water from the top and make a
- pretty good ice climbing wall. Maybe this can help spur some ideas.
-
- -Dave
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