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| Type: | Trad, Mixed, Ice, 3 pitches, Grade II |
| FA: | Kevin Donald, Jeff Lowe, David Breashears, 1975 |
| Page Views: | 19,954 total · 71/month |
| Shared By: | Malcolm Daly on Nov 2, 2001 |
| Admins: | Edward Medina, Leo Paik, John McNamee, Frances Fierst, Monty, Monomaniac, Tyler KC |
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Access Issue: Yield to mining vehicle traffic
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Revenue and Camp Bird Mines have resumed mining activities further up Camp Bird Rd. A new sign posted in February 2013 caused some tension as described in:
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Please refrain from blocking the road, yield to oncoming mining vehicle traffic, and be careful of rockfall and icefall. Please share the road to minimize future access issues with the road's multiple user groups.
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Please refrain from blocking the road, yield to oncoming mining vehicle traffic, and be careful of rockfall and icefall. Please share the road to minimize future access issues with the road's multiple user groups.
Description
About 15 minutes up the road from where you leave your car below Senator Gulch, you'll start to see ice on your right. Most of it forms up in clefts in the cliff. The Skylight is the prominent double-tiered route with the big chockstone defending the top of the first tier. Belay well off the road. The mine is now open and big trucks and snowplows roar by on a regular basis. They love scaring climbers.
P1 is easier than it looks and climbs the sometimes thin ice to the chockstone. Plug in a cam and layback left around it. Belay on a ledge to the right of the chockstone, out of the way of the ice-bombs that are about to come down.
P2 is usually harder than it looks and climbs the ice in the squeeze chimney to the tree at it's top. It's usually wet so bring belay gloves for the top unless it's really sunny.
Rap the route if there's nobody coming up behind you. There are slings around the tree at the top. Choppo's is a good alternate descent if The Skylight is occupied. If you don't have 2 ropes you can walk off by thrashing carefully to the left, over to Chockstone Gully.
P1 is easier than it looks and climbs the sometimes thin ice to the chockstone. Plug in a cam and layback left around it. Belay on a ledge to the right of the chockstone, out of the way of the ice-bombs that are about to come down.
P2 is usually harder than it looks and climbs the ice in the squeeze chimney to the tree at it's top. It's usually wet so bring belay gloves for the top unless it's really sunny.
Rap the route if there's nobody coming up behind you. There are slings around the tree at the top. Choppo's is a good alternate descent if The Skylight is occupied. If you don't have 2 ropes you can walk off by thrashing carefully to the left, over to Chockstone Gully.
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