Home - Destinations - People - Partners - Forum - Photos - What's New
 ADVANCED
Hell's Cave

Show routes:
Select route...
Nosferatu 

Hell's Cave

Submitted By: rich purnell on Mar 19, 2006
Administrators: Ben Mottinger, Leo Paik, John McNamee, Frances Fierst

Add Route  Add Photo  Add Comment  Add Event 

  Print a Mini-Guide - Includes Routes!

This area has access issues. Please read the note available on the Vail Ice page.

Nosferatu.


Description 

It boasts one route 'Nosferatu' at about M9-10 or so. I put this route up in summer when water was dripping off the lip of the cave. When winter rolled around, the water dried up and never formed ice; however, late in the season the cliff was coated with verglas (thin). There is also a big cliff that gets some ice just above this cave which has at least one unclimbed route. There is huge potential here for harder routes that will most likely be dry but great TRAINING routes anyway.


Getting There 

This cave is about a twenty minute hike east of the BELFRY (upper Spiral Staircase).



Add Photo Photos of Hell's Cave
Nosferatu.

Nosferatu.


Add Comment Comments on Hell's Cave
Show which comments
By richP
Feb 14, 2007

This cave is about a twenty minute hike east of the BELFRY (upper Spiral Staircase). It boasts one route 'Nosferatu' at about M9-10 or so. I put this route up in summer when water was dripping off the lip of the cave. When winter rolled around, the water dried up and never formed ice; however, late in the season the cliff was coated with verglas (thin). There is also a big cliff that gets some ice just above this cave which has at least one unclimbed route. There is huge potential here for harder routes that will most likely be dry but great TRAINING routes anyway.