The ’23–’24 ice season has been a strange one. I got started in Bozeman the week of the ice fest. I stayed at Case’s place and we got some good days in, but the week was all over the place with temperatures—normal to unseasonably warm, to cold. After returning to Utah I assumed more days […]
Tag: ice climbing
2024-01-27 Joe’s Valley Dual Sport Day
We’ve been at the house a few weeks straight and we decided to head to Joe’s Valley Friday night to climb a little ice and boulder on Saturday. The ice around Utah has been pretty terrible, but the reports were that a few things were in at Joe’s Valley. I’ve only climbed once before in […]
2023-12 Bozeman Ice Fest
December 1–10, 2023 I decided to head up to the Bozeman Ice Fest this year. It has been a couple years since I was there and I didn’t have any work responsibilities so I thought it would be a nice time to go. I opted to go up the weekend before and stay with Case. […]
2023-02-18 & 19 Presidents Day Weekend
For most of the winter I’d been doing some training and looking forward to a trip to Cody to climb with Micah. Unfortunately, a number of things conspired to snafu that plan, but we were able to make some awesome climbing happen in Ouray. In fact I got on perhaps two of the most classic […]
2023-02-04 & 05 Zion Ice
Until near the end of January the ice season around Utah had been pretty lackluster. The warm atmospheric rivers that were pummeling Utah with snow and making the ski season all-time were keeping temps warm at low elevations. I hadn’t been out more than a handful of times as a result. Then in the first […]