2014 - 2015 Utah Region Ice
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Rookie party is still in, on Tuesday, it aw so cold my camera and phone froze so I could not get a photo, anyone up for it on Sunday? |
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Be advised that the time on that route may have run out. |
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Kyler R wrote:Anyone gone up to see if there is ice around Sundial Peak in Big Cottonwood?My guess is that it is in by now or getting very close. This is November 21, 2013: I'll also say it's not worth the trudge in. It'll be the same as last year. Wallowing in powder just deep enough to make talus travel annoying. |
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Sundial is in. I don't have a picture for ya... that would have been a good idea. We went up Saturday and I know folks were up there sunday, too. |
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Garret Nuzzo-Jones wrote: Wallowing in powder just deep enough to make talus travel annoying."Annoying" doesn't quite describe it. |
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Seems like as good a place as any to ask, but I can move this elsewhere if needed since it's not actually a condition report: |
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Anyone been up LCC lately? Great White Ice in? |
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The GWI was forming on Saturday when I drove up to Alta. Seems like it needs a good week or two to form up well. |
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GW is in, I know for certain up to pitch 3. |
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On another topic... Heading to Banff and wasn't to plan. Any insight on the best guide book? |
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Chad, |
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All 4 on the GW go... It gets a little dicey at the top, 'who said pick placements in moss is bad?!?' Also, it was melting a lot this morning. |
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Did a little dry tooling at the Kitty Litter/Pipe Dream wall and got a photo of "Stairway to Heaven" on the drive up the canyon (11/22/2014). A bit grayed out, and certainly rain beaten after today, but I was psyched to see ice forming. Bridal Veil Falls area also looked like it had climbable ice prior to today's rain. |
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chadnuesmeyer wrote:All 4 on the GW go... It gets a little dicey at the top, 'who said pick placements in moss is bad?!?' Also, it was melting a lot this morning. @Micah... Thanks. I will pick it up.I'm not sure that swinging and ice axe into moss, is considered in. Are you kidding me! If the ice is melting a lot, is this considered in? Would you take a lead fall on the last pitch right now and feel good about bringing down the whole thing on top of you and your partner? This is terrible beta and should be deleted from the post. Check the weather and stay up to date on the temperature it's not rocket science (ice forms in the mountains when it gets cold). And when did the internet start guiding ice climbers anyway? Also no one cares if you climbed the GWI! |
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Kevin Chuba wrote:...Also no one cares if you climbed the GWI!Except you since your entire post was about it. Der. |
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Stairway on Tuesday.
That's a bit of a bummer. Looks like the 5th pitch, which was forming up nicely, collapsed in the warming and rain. With this storm being warmer than forecast and temps forecast for low 50's by mid-week looks like we will all need to go high or wait. Kevin calm down little buddy. Each of us has our own level of acceptable risk and deffinition of what's fun. The post provided good beta about conditions. It's up to each one of us to decide what's in or out. |
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Kevin Chuba wrote: I'm not sure that swinging and ice axe into moss, is considered in. Are you kidding me! If the ice is melting a lot, is this considered in? Would you take a lead fall on the last pitch right now and feel good about bringing down the whole thing on top of you and your partner? This is terrible beta and should be deleted from the post. Check the weather and stay up to date on the temperature it's not rocket science (ice forms in the mountains when it gets cold). And when did the internet start guiding ice climbers anyway? Also no one cares if you climbed the GWI!How are you coming into a conditions thread and complaining about updates to the conditions? Also, there's plenty of ice climbs where the 'in' conditions involve swinging some picks into moss. The Candlestick, even when absolutely monstrous, has a dirty finish. I neglected to get any good quality pics but on 11/20 I spied Hanging Slab gully coming in. Looked like a couple of other reasonable smears of ice towards super slab as well. If we get some more good freeze/thaw cycles happening later this week those climbs will be in. |
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I was planning on hitting up some Wasatch ice, but I know I'd wreck the ice if I did. |