2021/2022 Utah Ice Conditions

Caleb Perkinswrote:

I will post some pics, nothing that I know of in maple is top ropable without leading first. 

That's great to know, thanks!

[[]]Made it out to maple today and what looked like it was coming in when I was there Sunday is mostly melted from the warm spell. Everything’s super wet so we can keep our fingers crossed the temps will drop and freeze it all back up again. This pic is of roadside coulier and everything else along the road looked pretty similar or worse. 

Attempted the Fang in Provo this morning. P1 and 2 are sorta “half in” or half out, whatever you will. The p3 pillar is nonexistent yet. This was the best ice we could find there today, albeit not very good, mostly very wet, chandeliered or cauliflower. It goes if you’re adventurous and not too worried abt pro, but needs a real good cold spell to form sufficiently.

from afarFang P1

Just got back in town to an alarming lack of snow in my yard. Anyone driven by the GWI recently? Does it go?

^ It went, but just barely. Sketch show with a ton of water/rock. 

I climbed Frozen Assets over the weekend. Pitches 1&8 were thin to say the least. The rest of climb goes pretty easily. Leave any screws longer than 13cm at home. With the increasingly warm temps, who knows how much longer it will stay in shape. Hopefully this Friday's snow showers give it some much-needed fuel to fatten up. 

J-Wrightwrote:

^ It went, but just barely. Sketch show with a ton of water/rock. 

Barely? given the warm temps it is fine nick, especially the top. My glasses did not get a bit of water on them. It was fine solo stroll up the mighty GWI.

BTW I noticed many people are leaving packs at the base. Given the number of tweakers in the canyons and easy access I would suggest climbing with your packs. Besides carrying a pack is training. 

Maybe you got there earlier than we did, maybe you're just more of a mountain man.

By time I topped out, we'd seen some other folks take the mixed exit left. We took the mostly standard way up. Up to the final pitch was totally fine. Final pitch started in the chimney and up to the pillar, then around to the top. Screws were fine, but there was plenty of poorly attached ice/moss/rock. Slightly more shrub at the very top than normal, normal topout doesn't go.

 Felt like a semi-spicy late season version of GWI, but yeah it goes and maybe we were soft on the first outing of the year.

Triggered haha. BTW everyone is posting up in the other Utah ice thread here. Don't keep posting in two separate threads.

https://www.mountainproject.com/forum/topic/121835357/utah-2021-2022-ice-thread

Agreed^ please post in the Utah forum version of this thread.