Does anyone have recent info about ice conditions around Provo? Pics would be even better! Thanks!

Climbed provo today-Bridal veil right is in to the top. Good conditions and dry.

Provo Canyon...Bolted small mixed line between Bridal Veil Left and Bridal Veil Right...4 bolts...M4-M5 depending on conditions...new chains 5' to the left of Bridal Veil Right chains...route name = B.V.M.

Me and my friend Dan top roped that climb last week and we thought it might be worth bolting, congratulating

Hey guys!

So after reading (and laughing at) a bunch of MP posts about lost tools, I finally managed to lose one of my own. I guess it's not lost--I mean, I know the exact WI5 pillar that it's on top of--there's just no way in hell that I'll be able to lead up it.

So, just wanted to see if anyone was interested in going on a trip. I'll pay for gas, all you have to do is get up a super sweet line that almost never gets climbed. It's in the Strawberry Pinnacles.

Alternatively, if you wanted to go up there on your own and get it for me, I'd definitely get you a beer.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks,

Thomas

Went down to Joe's Valley today and climbed CCC Falls and the Donorcicle. Both are in fantastic shape, with just the far thin right curtain of the upper pitch of CCC Falls having dropped off. Saw the Pricecicle on the way down and it is pretty monstrous. Filthy looking but very large.

CCC Falls was fun but the real meat was on the Donorcicle:

Donorcicle on 2/9/12 Submitted By: Garret Nuzzo-Jones on Feb 10, 2012

"Drool all you want. This is what Thomas, Dan and I found in Strawberry Pinnacles today 2/09/12."

The climb in Mooner's photo is Excalibur WI5. Super fun pillar.

In reality Nathan it is not Excalibur. We did go to Excalibur but were chased off the land by some guy with a camera saying he was going to call the sheriff for trespassing. For the record we didn't have our ice gear with us and went and knocked on the land owners door first then went back to look at it. So the moral of the story is call before attempting Excalibur. The land owner ( or at least his neibors) seems very protective of it
The picture above is something we found and I do not know the name of it and have yet to find any previous info on. it. It a lso is not located on private land.

Are you talking about the one right behind the house in Spring Canyon? That has been called Spring Canyon Falls for many years.

As for the one in your photo it is .7 miles up Timber canyon. There was a new brown sling and Omega Rap ring on a pine to the right just 15 feet above the topout. I was there Saturday and again on Wednesday.

Ahhh OK. Thanks Nathan. Thomas was the one directing the trip and told us the one behind the house was Excalibur. Thanks for the info. You should get in contact with Thomas to help him get his tool back.
Either way the one behind the house, spring canyon falls, is also a very nice piece of ice also. Do you know how to get in contact with the land owner of spring canyon or how one goes about getting permission to climb?

When we were up there, we didn't see any evidence of a rap anchor, but there were relatively fresh boot tracks heading up to the base of the climb. We rapped off of a tree immediately above the left side of the pillar.

Jacob: I was just confused as to the north/south directions given on MP, so I clearly flipped the description of the two pieces of ice. My bad. Isn't it cool knowing the name of it now?

It's in good. Anyone wanna head up there with me tomorrow to get my tool? I'll pay gas.

Thomas

Shiho,

Most of the time, people go climb because it's rewarding in and of itself--the thought of free gas + dinner/whatever would certainly motivate me to go climb, since 99% of the time, neither of those two perks are included.

If no one wants to go, I guess I'll just have to buck down and get 'em myself. I've got another set of tools, just not sure I have the balls to lead that thing.

Thomas,

I didn't know that there's free dinner involved in this rescue mission... I didn't meant to upset/provoke you. I'm sorry if I offended you in any means. All I was trying to say was that if the reward was so small, whoever rescued the tool may turn around and sell it on ebay for good chunk of money... I know that there are a lot of good people in UT, though, and I'm sure they'd gladly return your tool for free. I was just trying to help. For instance, when I 'rescued' a #6 Camalot, I got a nice bottle of whiskey.

Shiho

Wow...the things you learn in an ice conditions thread...

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Objective hazards? Yikes!

Last Chance Falls in the Right Fork of Logan Canyon is still fat. Not sure if it is really worth the drive from Salt Lake, but if you live closer, it is a fun line. Too bad there is not much else in the area.

Are the Falls up Providence Canyon in at all?

Anyone interested in getting out this week for some laps on something? I'm free on tuesday and thursday. Pretty flexible with scheduling/locations.

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