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Treasure Falls 

WI4-5

   
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FA: unknown
Type: Trad, Ice
Consensus: WI4+ [details]
Length: 1 pitch, 140 feet
Season: Late November to early Ma
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Submitted By: Ben Bruestle on Jan 1, 2002


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Evil snow family guarding the base of Treasure Fal...


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Treasure Falls is the classic climb in the area. Don't let the bottom mislead you. The top usually kicks back pretty vertical. Make sure you have enough strength to finish it.


Protection 

This climb can eat up your screws. Be careful when topping out, try not to kick through the bubble. The trees to climber's right on top work well for anchors. Please add that two ropes are needed to rap, since this climb is approximately 140'.

Per Jesse Morehouse: There usually is a fixed anchor (tat) around the large pine on climber's left.



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Patrick Lewis, midway up Trasure Falls - photographer <br />Jonathan Jackson

Patrick Lewis, midway up Trasure Falls - photograp...

Paul Bostrom, midway up Treasure Falls - <br />photographer Jonathan Jackson

Paul Bostrom, midway up Treasure Falls -
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Treasure Falls - photographer Jonathan Jackson

Treasure Falls - photographer Jonathan Jackson

Treasure Falls

BETA PHOTO: Treasure Falls

Treasure Falls in good shape.

BETA PHOTO: Treasure Falls in good shape.

Treasure in '07.  This is pretty fat conditions.  This was my first time climbing it and as noted by others, it sure is deceiving!  Much steeper and longer than it looks, even with me on there for scale.  A great pitch, even when you have to tunnel through 8 ft of drifted snow on top well above your last screw cause you just "couldn't see taking more than 7!!!!"

Treasure in '07. This is pretty fat conditions. ...

Treasure in unusually easy (WI 4) conditions.  A cool shot from the road of me and my wife gittin' 'er done!  By the way- "easy" on Treasure is still not like climbing in an ice park- water wells out of pick hole, soaking your pants, you can hear the chunks break off inside your pick holes and rattle down inside the hollow tube up top, there are ice lenses over snow, and all that other stuff that keeps it real!

Treasure in unusually easy (WI 4) conditions. A c...


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By George Bell
From: Boulder, CO
Jan 23, 2002

When I climbed this in 1995, it was a beautiful pitch. Near the top, there was a fantastic "window" of ice inside which you could see water cascading. We tried to avoid climbing near this window, but when we removed our picks, water started shooting out of the holes. Beware on this climb as there is a large volume of water flowing through the ice. Under certain conditions it's possible to fall through the ice and into the waterfall underneath.

By Ben Bruestle
From: Pueblo, CO
Feb 3, 2002

Finally got on Treasure Falls this year. It is steeper and taller than usual. The left side is getting chopped out, yet is still stiff Grade 4. Lots of big dinner plates. The right side is a series of WI5 columns. The top is also thicker than most years. No worries of kicking through. The climb only gets sunhit in the late afternoon.

By Scott Beguin
From: Los Alamos, NM
Aug 9, 2007

This is a full 200 foot pitch to the belay, so use two 60m lines to get off. There is a nice WI5 60 foot tall pillar at the top of Treasure Falls if it is in. It is well worth the extra credit.

By Jesse Morehouse
From: CO
Aug 28, 2008
rating: WI4-5

There usually is a fixed anchor (tat) around the large pine on climber's left. It's handier than digging for anchors on other trees. Definitely a classic. My impression is that it appears foreshortened and easier than it always turns out to be!