Trip: FA: "Gray Falls" - Ingalls Creek

Date: 12/10/2009

Trip Report:
Today Mark Shipman and I partnered up and climbed a route we named "Gray Falls" (WI4) due to its close proximity to Gray Tower, above Ingalls Creek. We climbed the route in two roped pitches (each being a full 70 meters) and did a lot of solo climbing up rambling steps. The elevation gain from the base of the route to the top was 900 feet according to our watches.

The route: We soloed the first ice tier, then roped up on the 2nd, & third. From the top of the third we put the rope away and climbed up more easy stuff.



Mark leading the middle section, WI3:



The the upper level, WI4:



Upper rambling stuff.



Approach Notes:
5 or 6 miles of Ingalls Creek Trail. Clearly Visable.

Sweet!

Damn dude that looks as good as it gets.

Hells yeah man! Nice big phat ice!




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looks like THE new WA classic long ice climb, that's quite a feat!

Nice! Keep them coming...

Here is another picture for size comparison of the first step and the overall route. I didn't post it at first because its so bad and sun washed.

looks like an incredible line Craig.

Nice work. Great to see routes coming into shape.

Wow!

you're on a tear Craig! nice work

looks outstanding!! guess i picked the wrong winter to leave WA.

No better person to climb with than Mark. allways a lot of fun.

kick ass!

looks pretty badass - i'm jealous

so with that long of approach is that a commitment of IV?? if so you should probably send it into the AAJ

ps. i heard a rumor you're not going back to hyalite because you climbed everything already

I certainly won't call that a IV.

beautiful!