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| Type: | Ice, 110 ft (33 m) |
| FA: | Brian Nelson and Dylan Waller, 2007 |
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Access Issue: This area is closed
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JeffCo Open Space current closures and fines: jeffco.us/CivicAlerts.aspx?….
Per Matt Steen: the access issue on this area was incorrect.
Centennial Cone Park is and has been CLOSED from DEC. 1 - JAN. 31 for late season hunting access. The park is closed to all other uses during that time. According to the Internet Archive, it's been this way since at least 2006 ( web.archive.org/web/2006100…).
We were ticketed $75 each by a ranger on 2024-01-20 for hiking up the Mayhem Gulch drainage. We hiked around the right side of a fence in the drainage on the east end of the parking lot (behind the toilets) and missed the sign saying it was closed beyond. There was also a sign at the trailhead on the west end of the parking lot for the hunting closure, which we didn't see from the east end.
This could be an issue for the climbing community to advocate for, i.e. excluding Mayhem Gulch from Centennial Cone Park's closure area ( jeffco.us/DocumentCenter/Vi…). Then, installing a fixed anchor per jeffco.us/4071/Climbing.
Previously (and now changed): this area is posted as closed for hunting Dec. 1 -Jan. 31 as confirmed by a Jefferson County Open Space ranger in March 2011.
As of Dec. 2011, the parking area is closed here. The signage indicates that the Mayhem Gulch Trail and Centennial Dome are closed due to hunting. According to a JeffCo ranger, the access to the ice climb is not open. You will have to figure out legal parking which may be further away.
Per Matt Steen: the access issue on this area was incorrect.
Centennial Cone Park is and has been CLOSED from DEC. 1 - JAN. 31 for late season hunting access. The park is closed to all other uses during that time. According to the Internet Archive, it's been this way since at least 2006 ( web.archive.org/web/2006100…).
We were ticketed $75 each by a ranger on 2024-01-20 for hiking up the Mayhem Gulch drainage. We hiked around the right side of a fence in the drainage on the east end of the parking lot (behind the toilets) and missed the sign saying it was closed beyond. There was also a sign at the trailhead on the west end of the parking lot for the hunting closure, which we didn't see from the east end.
This could be an issue for the climbing community to advocate for, i.e. excluding Mayhem Gulch from Centennial Cone Park's closure area ( jeffco.us/DocumentCenter/Vi…). Then, installing a fixed anchor per jeffco.us/4071/Climbing.
Previously (and now changed): this area is posted as closed for hunting Dec. 1 -Jan. 31 as confirmed by a Jefferson County Open Space ranger in March 2011.
As of Dec. 2011, the parking area is closed here. The signage indicates that the Mayhem Gulch Trail and Centennial Dome are closed due to hunting. According to a JeffCo ranger, the access to the ice climb is not open. You will have to figure out legal parking which may be further away.
Description
The line is obvious. Ascend up fifty feet of less than vertical but often thin ice to a ledge, then breeze up some steps to a short vertical section that climbs past a rock horn, and then climb up the last short section to the top. The crux is either the odd-angled climbing sometimes needed to get around the rock horn on the second tier or the thinness of ice on the lower section.
If in thick, this is a great beginner route. If thin, which it often is, it can be sketchy.
If in thick, this is a great beginner route. If thin, which it often is, it can be sketchy.
Protection
One or two screws for the lower section and one or two for the crux should do you. Short screws are the rule, have I mentioned that it is often thin? ItÂ’s also a great solo but take a rope to rap, the scramble down is a pain.
No bolts and little to no rock pro on this wall.
Use the tree at the top to anchor and rappel. Bring slings and a 70m rope is a must.
No bolts and little to no rock pro on this wall.
Use the tree at the top to anchor and rappel. Bring slings and a 70m rope is a must.
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