The 2014-2015 Colorado Ice Conditions Thread
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Anyone gone and looked at Total Abandon again lately? |
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Andrew Krueger wrote:Anyone gone and looked at Total Abandon again lately?We were up there checking yesterday - zero ice. |
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Gonna head to Silverton on Sunday to check out conditions. Anyone have a heads up? Ice ice ice ice ice |
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Eldo Love wrote:Gonna head to Silverton on Sunday to check out conditions. Anyone have a heads up? Ice ice ice ice iceLet us know what's up on Gullies 1 & 2? |
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Any word on Lincoln falls? |
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Matthew Jerousek wrote: We were up there checking yesterday - zero ice.That is pretty surprising given what should be a decent melt/freeze cycle in these temps. Must just be sublimating away... Very, very dry. |
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Climbed Flying Dutchman yesterday. Did the approach to the lake in my tennies - only a little bit of ice/snow on the trail. Snow in the couloir was about 30% awesome. The other 70% required 6 point wallowing technique. Lots of old, gray ice on the crux. I think I went a little low on the loft descent (first time doing it) and ended up on what would have been a pretty sweet little mixed pitch if I wasn't down-soloing it. |
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Hey guys, here is a look at the NW Gully on Thatchtop. Needless to say, it's not fat, but damnit it was IN!! Great climb, ice all the way up with a little snow wallowing in between pitches. |
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Pre-season conditions have been good so far (good moisture), but we aren't there yet in the San Juan's - more info here: mtnguide.net/blog/ |
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Sunny and 64 in Ouray currently, perfect rock climbing weather. |
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And here's some ice I climbed on Pike's Peak yesterday.... Free solo. Spray, spray, spray..... :-) |
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I took a walk up to Glacier Gorge 11/7 to have a look at All Mixed Up. The main flow is in and was being climbed. Here are some pics, the quality sucks since I was shooting right into the sun, |
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Christopher.D.Thomas wrote:And here's some ice I climbed on Pike's Peak yesterday.... Free solo. Spray, spray, spray..... :-) youtube.com/watch?v=nRma3bb…Nice work! I couldn't find any information on Waltzing Matilda.... do you have any beta? |
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Notchtop: we decided to turn around after wallowing on wind-loaded slopes (after just a couple inches of snow up high overnight) on the approach on a really windy day. Too bad, because the ice looked really great (and Matt, whom we meet on the way up, confirmed it was a great climb just a couple of days ago), but we figured we would be doing similar wallowing on the snow fields between the ice steps, especially below the summit (which is already building a cornice). One team started up fairly late, but the winds were abating, so I'm wondering if they went for it? (yeah, I'm waiting to hear that they had a fantastic climb . . .) |
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Thanks Christopher! |
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AMU - 11/09/14 - 2nd pitch |
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So...I wonder what the upcoming cold snap will do to the ice? I fear that with the lack of moisture this fall it may not build much and just make whatever is there super brittle...on the other hand there is some snow in the forecast, so maybe it's not so bad. |
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Rocky_Mtn_High . . . yep, we went for it on the NE face of Notchtop, and yes, it was an amazing climb. Zero winds on route, ice was in great condition, and snow pack between pitches was stable. There was a small amount of post-holing (up to knee level), but most of it was easy, quick walking. The only warning to future parties I have is that the snowfield above the final pitch was getting very wind-loaded, and a fairly ominous cornice had formed at the summit. With all of the forecasted snow up there for the next week, those fields will get dangerous. But as of Saturday, conditions were perfect. |