The Shroud 

Super fat and little avi danger at the moment. WI 3-4.
It is exactly 1/4 mile from the parking at Officer's Gulch.
One rope is perfect.

The Shroud is dry...

Climbed here today. A nice short/steep pillar on the left is in fat. Thinner and steep curatains on the left also lead. The middle curtain probably isn't leadable right now, maybe in another week with good weather. Top rope it, though.

Watch out at the top - not much ice headed to the high anchors, and lots of loose rock.

Climbed 3/23/02. Still in good shape. Layer of slush on top but good ice below for pro. Evidence of recent slide activity.

Climbed The Shroud yesterday... Soft on the left; nice and firm on the right. Use the not so obvious anchor on the far right for a better climb (tr). It was an exceptionally beautiful Colorado day!

The left and right side are fairly good. The center is filling in.

Left side is fat and wet. The middle is climbable but deteriorating. The right side offers an easier alternative but currently isn't seeing any re-developement.

Conditions were great on The Shroud on 2/10/03. Sticky, screw eating, blue ice, although starting to get chopped out a little. Just as a note of caution, a 60m rope just gets you to the ground since the anchors are back a bit from the top. A 50m will leave you with a short downclimb...

Climbed 1/18/2004. Left side was fat and wet. The middle curtain touched down and was much fun.

FYI: This area & this climb are areas to be particularly cautious. A few years back an experienced ice climber was completely pummeled by a big avalanche on this route, I recall.

Leo, I think you made my point more so than I did. I was trying to point out all the evidence of avalanche below the climb. Bits of trees and broken branches strewn about. The fact that the approach was 6" hard slab over 36" of sugar snow. If anyone has the accident details Leo ref's, please post.

As I recall, this was published in a Summit County publication & Rocky Mt News. He was a talented, experienced climber. Sadly, he just was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I think the folks at Bent Gate knew him.

It's not a secret. It is visible from I-70, after all. Fewer people climb this route after mid Nov. due to the danger from the huge snowfields near the top of the peak, which are not visible from the climb. It gets climbed in winter, but it is best to go when avvy danger is low. This past weekend, most of the gullies in Officer's Gulch had lots of wet slide debris in the bottoms of them.

Edit: Oops, didn't see Leo's follow up to the conditions comment.

Shroud's in pretty good as of 12/10/06. Right side better than the left. Both sides however require climbing frozen dirt to webbing.
Jack Roberts' book "Colorado Ice" describes this as WI3. I think it's a definite 4.

Looks like a pair of climbers had a close call with an avalanche while climbing The Shroud on 1-17-11. From the CAIC accident page:

avalanche.state.co.us/acc/accidents_co.php

"While toproping The Shroud ice climb, an avalanche from above the climb flowed through the area. The climber on the ice at the time was generally protected just below the top of the ice flow and the avalanche ran over him. The belayer was not anchored in and was swept from his stance at the belay station. The belayer was unable to hold the break on the belay device and slid approximately 30 feet down the rope where a knot stopped him from being carried away by the avalanche and releasing the climber above. The snow flowed over the climber and pummelled the belayer for approximately 10 seconds and then continued past the climbers. Neither party was injured or buried as the two climbers held each other's weight at the end of the rope through the secure toprope anchor. The slide reached the bike/ski/snowshoe path at the base of the slope approximately 400 to 500 feet below."

Sounds like the knot in the end of the rope might have saved these guys.

Guys and gals, I hate to say this out loud, but I dropped a tool out there today. It has black tape along the shaft and five wraps of grip tape near the head. I will be out there searching for it as much as possible until I find it. However, if you find it, please contact me. I would be glad to recover it. Thank you so much. (720) 340-0930.

Congrats on finding that tool!