Back to Ice
March 20th, 2010
My first week up in Canada started out with some seriously good climbing! My partner this week has been Pat Murphy from Toronto. Though she has only been climbing for two seasons, she managed to tick a few real Canadian ice testpieces: Curtain Call, Hydrophobia and Whiteman Falls! The latter was an “honest” WI 6+, lacking evindence (hence, hooking) of previous ascents. It required much swinging while hanging on to tools through multiple overhangs. It was a cool piece of ice! Hydrophobia was straight up WI 5 fun, though we had to wait 4 hours for another party to get up it prior to starting (they came in from another approach route, so we never knew of their pressence until arriving there.) Curtain Call, pictured above, was our first outing and though WI 6, it was very ammenanble at that grade due to the 40 degree temperatures that day. The ice was soft, one-swing type stuff.
I can only hope this next week is as good!
