Another day of ice climbing! I have always wanted to climb this route, and thanks to Ben's mad skills it happened. We decided to turn the trip into a combined event and cross country skied the approach. What a difference it made on our time, we crushed the 5 km slog down the closed highway in 30 minutes. Unfortunatly we had to move out of the warm sun and into a cold narrow canyon, but the cold helped preserve the ice and by the afternoon we were in the sun. This route is one of the coolest routes I have seen, its almost like gravity doesn't exist in the canyon! I took the first lead and found myself weaving through ice caves and over crazy mushrooms. Ben took the hard lead and picked his way through steep overhanging ice blobs! Crazy stuff! We skied out in the dark.
Skiing are way up the road.
Ben, always dressing to hit the club.
Some crazy surface hoar on the way in.
In all its glory!
Taking first lead.
Working a way through the jaws of the beast.
Ben moving out of the cave.
Dre moving into the sweet belay cave.
Water flowing behind the wall of ice.
Dre looking good at the belay.
Me chasing Dre up the final pitch.
Getting ready to head down.
Heading down.
Ben looking pretty epic.
Heading home after a wicked day!
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