any body seen any? freeze thaw is here no doubt.

Dan,
The Alpine stuff probably won't be in for a couple more weeks. I will start pilgrimages the first of November. That is usually when the ice is coming in.
Dallen

SHORB!!!!! I'm game.

I saw some little 1 foot chunks of ice on the dirtsicle driving back from moab last weekend.

The first ice to come in in Utah(that I know about) is on the back of Timp. 2 hour hike to get to it but really fun for first ice. I will be up there the first weekend of November to check it out if anyone wants to come along. The next place to look is Mary's lake down in Joes Valley, if there isn't a lot of snow you can 4x4 to the base of the climbs down there I will be heading down there in November as well. Any takers... I really think the Uintahs has some great potential for ice. I am thinking The North slope --Blacks Fork or Red Castle areas. I know there are some great falls in the Naturalist basin but they would be in the sun. Anyone up for a winter trip into any of these areas...

Timp and Mary's lake are both really good Ice. We should put together a crew to head down to Mary's Lake. 2nd or 3rd weekend of Nov. You can see the ice if you look at the skyline looking across Joe's Valley Reservoir, so you don't even have to drive all the way up to the climbs. There are several climbs there in the grade 4-5 range so there are lots of options to climb. Definitely worth the drive. Timp as several climbs that come in as well. This year should have a really good collection of climbs on Timp. with the early snow. I have climbed up to 6 pitch long climbs up there. Most are 1-3 pitches, just depends on the year.

I would love to go check out the climbs by the Y coulior. Brian would you care to show me around up there?

Its coming...
Dallen

anybody ever gotten on the north face of Timp or those drips left of Grunge?


or these in primrose cirque? photo courtesy of Fowezzer on Summitpost.org.

A bit of ice on Am. Twins, although nothing that shouldn't be given another storm or two.

I have climbed the ones up in primrose cirque. Really fun climbs but they are inconsistent in coming in. I have seen the ice over by the grunge but it was early spring and they were not climbable when I saw them. I would be very interested looking at them this winter.

Something to wet your whistle.

2009-10-28 Stairway Submitted By: jtwalter on Oct 28, 2009

2009-10-28 Bridal Veil Submitted By: jtwalter on Oct 28, 2009

2009-10-28 The Fang Submitted By: jtwalter on Oct 28, 2009

2009-10-28 Post Nasal Drip & Miller's Thriller Submitted By: jtwalter on Oct 28, 2009

2009-10-28 Soft 'n Juicy Submitted By: jtwalter on Oct 28, 2009

Great shots! Thank you! One can always hope it would stay and grow.

I was told the dirtsicle is climbable, as of 3-4 days ago.

Photo from Shane Hall's climb of Dirtsicle on Wed.

Would anybody be in favor of a return of utahiceclimbing.com or something like that?

The site was a central repository of information (use at your own risk) from the various forum sites that get posted to for this kind of thing?

I ran utahiceclimbing.com for a season and got a lot of flame-email telling me who I could and could not quote from the forums and it was more trouble than it was worth.

I still check about 5 sites and resulting threads all winter, but don't repost the info anywhere. its not a lot of work for me to do so, but i don't want deal with the flak.

Would this be something that folks would be interested in seeing return?

Bring it bud! Any up o date info in the ice would always be welcome with me.

bring it! And thanks for the good work

2009 ice Submitted By: Boreas on Nov 25, 2009

Anyone know anything about the routes in Echo Canyon listed in the Ice Climbing Utah guidebook? I was out there today and it looks like there are 'No Trespassing' signs in the areas described by the book.

Eric, I'd be happy to see its return as well. I was considering doing it myself, actually -- let me know if you need any help, I have quite a bit of experience building websites.