Jens at work.
cold? scared? tired? hungry?
Looking down the gully from the top of pitch two. We're 400 feet up here.
Jens leading the last pitch .
This is the Great White Icicle as seen from the parking lot.
So this is what Reading Days are really for (or at least they have been for me all 8 semesters at BYU). Jens and I climbed over 1,000 feet of ice today. We left Provo at 5:15 this morning, climbed Great White Icicle - 4 pitches - then climbed the first pitch of Stairway to Heaven - 300 ft. Awesome, the only thing it was missing was my responsible wife who actually studied on reading days. I missed her, but we're going to go next week.
5 comments:
lucky mc luckerson.
i wish i ice climbed with you chaps. nice work tho :)
That's incredible, Brian! Those pictures alone are scary. I can't imagine the real thing. This is probably a silly questions, but do you use an ice pick to climb? I couldn't tell from the pictures (it looked like that is what Jens had in a picture), but I can't imagine that you could climb ice with anything else.
Emily
Oh I did that one the other day. It wasn't that big of a deal, though, that's why I didn't put it on my blog.
Hi Emily - yup,you climb with ice tools - one in each hand and crampons on your feet. The tools are crazy sharp picks that you can swing into the ice.
Brian, I love hearing Ang referred to as your "wife"! It just sounds right. Looking forward to seeing you two when you come out to NC for the holidays!
Rach
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