If you're on your way back to the Wasatch Front going home from Joe's Valley and you want to swing your tools one more time, this climb is for you.
This is a reliably forming line of ice tucked away in a drainage, a short walk from the highway.
Protection
Screws, toprope, or solo (it's short and easy). Rap off of trees, hike down, or just down climb.
Location
This climb is next to Highway 6 in Spanish Fork Canyon.
Driving South: Less than two (2) miles past the Diamond Fork turn off.
Driving North: Just north of the Billies Mountain pass. Billies Mountain pass is where the highway was carved through the mountain to bypass the Thistle mudslide.
Watch for a small drainage on the east side of the road. You can see the ice from the highway. Walk up the drainage to the base.
This route has a steeper section after this 30' section to the right. I believe Billie's is about 1.5 miles from Diamond Fork and Iron Oxide falls is 1.9 miles.
By Brian in SLC From: Salt Lake City, UT Jan 29, 2008
Pretty sure this route has a second pitch, around 10 minutes or so hike further up the drainage. DB's ice guide says its around 60 feet long, which I seem to recall was pretty accurate.
Fun diversion after a day of sniffin' or on the way back (or to) Joe's.
Snowshoed up and climbed it on Thursday after work. Having left the snowshoes at the bottom of the climb, I post holed in the thigh deep snow as far up the right drainage as I could before it got too dark to see. I did not see any more ice. I've been up the left drainage before...no ice there either. Even if it's just one short pitch it's still fun.
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