Surf’s Up! from Freddie Wilkinson on Vimeo.
“The ice swell was ON at Poko-Moonshine cliff this season, the winter of 2010- 2011. My friends Matt Horner, Matt McCormick, and Bayard Russell pioneered an amazing new mixed line just right of the Jeff Lowe test-piece, Gorillas in the Mist. Only one pitch remained to finish Endangered Species to the top of the cliff… and Kevin Mahoney was psyched…” – Freddie Wilkinson
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Endangered Species from Matt McCormick on Vimeo.
On Friday January, 14. Bayard Russell, Matt Horner and I climbed a line on the “Big Wall” section of Poko-Moonshine in the Adirondacks. The line paralleled the legendary Jeff Lowe route Gorillas in the Mist which hasn’t seen a 3rd ascent since Alex Lowe and Randy Rackliff repeated it the day after the FA in 1997.
We called this new variant Endangered Species WI5+R M6+
-Matt McCormick
(c) Doug Millen
Soft, wet, runny ice on pitch three. The chockstone looms above
(c) Doug Millen
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