[TR] Icicle Canyon - Rainbow Falls and ??? 12/21/2008

[TyClimber]

Trip: Icicle Canyon - Rainbow Falls and ???

 

Date: 12/21/2008

 

Trip Report:

The ice is forming up nicely in the icicle after the last week of cold ass temps. Rainbow Falls is pretty fat and cruisy. We got a pic of the route that I will try and post later.

 

After that we went farther up the canyon to check out Icicle Buttress, which unfortunately was not quite filled in enough to climb yet. We spied a flow a few hundred yards further up the road from it though that was looking good. Not quite sure what we climbed but it was about 70-80ft and I would guess it was WI 4, definitely worth the 10 min approach.

 

Sweet to get out swing the tools!

[TyClimber]

 

Rainbow Falls Right. Sorry for the weird angle, somebody was feeling artistic

[kurthicks]

We spied a flow a few hundred yards further up the road...

 

Just upstream from the drainage near the Icicle Buttress descent trail, but before Roto Wall? If so, it sounds way harder than when I did it a couple years back.

 

There's also an easy flow (WI2-3, 30M) up the hill just before/downstream Icicle Buttress, near the base of that wall with the multi-pitch slab routes (Fish Wall?).

 

Have you gotten a look at The Drip recently?

 

Good on ya!

Edited December 23, 2008 by kurthicks

[TyClimber]

Yeah, maybe it was just harder because it wasn't as filled in. Or maybe I am way over rating it.

 

Haven't checked out Tumwater canyon at all, but I was up in the Moutaineer Creek drainage yesterday and the climbs up there were looking pretty sweet.

[Alex]

pics?

[TyClimber]

Sorry, didn't take the camera with me.

[kurthicks]

good news. i'm going to be there in a week, hope they stay in.