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DescriptionThis area contains excellent short routes on good varnished rock as well as longer routes. Many of the routes are shady, making this a good place to hide in warm weather. Getting TherePark at the Icebox canyon trailhead, just past Willow Spring on the loop road. Approaches start on a good trail leading south from the parking lot. The ClassicsMountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Icebox Canyon:
Hop Route 5.7 Trad, 3 pitches, 250 feet Necromancer Wall
Fold Out 5.8 Trad, 1 pitch, 120 feet Necromancer Wall
Cold September Corner 5.8 Trad, 1 pitch, 60 feet Sunnyside Crags
Atras 5.8 Trad, 2 pitches, 200 feet Necromancer Wall
Magellanic Cloud 5.9 Trad, 1 pitch, 50 feet Sunnyside Crags
Sensuous Mortician 5.9 Trad, 1 pitch, 120 feet Necromancer Wall
Frigid Air Buttress 5.9 Trad, 7 pitches, 800 feet, Grade III Frigid Air Buttress
Mister Masters 5.9+ Trad, 1 pitch, 70 feet Sunnyside Crags
Breakaway 5.10c Trad, 2 pitches, 290 feet Refrigerator Wall
La Cierta Edad 5.10d Trad, 5 pitches, 650 feet, Grade III Refrigerator Wall
Spring Break 5.11+ Trad, 1 pitch, 70 feet Sunnyside Crags
Featured Route For Icebox Canyon
Spring Break 5.11+ NV : Red Rock : ... : Sunnyside Crags
When hiking into Icebox pay attention to the north side of the canyon. You will pass several small caves and roofs before reaching varnished rock. Keep going - Spring Break lies slightly west of the Magellanic Cloud/Cold September Corner area on a rectangular face of dark rock immediately left of a huge right facing corner capped by chossy roofs. There is a ledge atop this face with a communal anchor at a large horizintal break where the rock ...[more] Browse More Classics in NV
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