Climbing in Colorado
Just after the new year, we spent a week in Colorado in Ouray climbing Ice and attended the Ice festival climbing competition.Tuesday we went out to the Skylight area to climb with Steve House, who led us up some sketchy thin mixed (ice & rock) route called Slip and slide – I would never have thought about climbing that scary ass shit on my own, so thanks to Steve for showing us how a real man climbs!Next, we found a long gulley which had a good variety of rock, frozen dirt, logs and all kinds of fun stuff.At the top there was a short 15 foot vertical ice headwall then a big tree. Steve led again, followed by Beamer and I. To save time, Beamer and I tied in 20 feet apart, which was the stupidest idea ever, because every time beamer stalled on hard climbing, I’d catch right up to him, then when I was stuck on the hard stuff, he’d be hanging precariously from bad holds. Meanwhile, he’s kicking down snow and rock and junk in my face, so it was like climbing through an avalanche. I got wet. Thankfully I had a cool new face shield which made it way easier. Anyway, it was an awesome climb and we were all stoked.The rest of the week was morning to night climbing in the park, which got us all sore and was super fun.
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