This climb takes the line to the left of the The Pencil/Fear Factor. Start on the obvious column of ice, and then traverse left along a ledge. Clip the bolt and move up onto the thin column of ice. From the top of the ice follow the chossy corner to a crack, get some gear in and make the traverse below the small tree to the ice along an obvious ledge system to the right.
Gear: Screws, stubbies, small cams, spectre. Rap off the tree or walk off.
FA: Ryan Jennings, January 2007.
Hayden Carpenter and Tom Bohanon recently repeated an obscure ice climb on the south side of Mt Sopris. Given a brief mention in Jack Robert’s ice guide, Bulldog Creek Walk is described as being 100 meters of WI 4. What they found was seven pitches of ice in a remote setting that makes for one […]
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