Type: Mixed, Ice, 100 ft (30 m)
FA: unknown
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Shared By: Ryan Barber on Feb 27, 2012
Admins: Jay Knower, M Sprague, Lee Hansche, Jeffrey LeCours, Jonathan S, Robert Hall

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This is the line that goes right under the cave and up to a mixed finish. The climb is in the shade, so freezer effect sets in, and the temperature drops a bit while on route. The climb was actually a bit more exciting that I thought it would be from first glance. It goes up to the hanging icicles and traverses right and up through a corner. At the finish, there was a large plate of junky ice hanging from the top (see photo). I had to knock this off to access the nice crack underneath which is good for small stoppers and tri-cams and which offers very secure tool hooks.

On my first attempt, I sunk my tool into the ice on the top to make the final pull, but it detached and sent me down about 15 feet onto a stopper. The fall was very clean, and I went right back for another go, this time dry hooking the region where the ice that detached was and pulled through to some nice tree anchors about 15 feet back.

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You can make two repels from the top with a 60 meter rope (there are some good trees half way down the cliff), or you can lower the second down and rap most of the way, then down-climb the easy ice to the snowfield at the bottom.

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Screws
Small nuts and tri-cams

Anchor off of trees at top.

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