Baker Ice

[Sleeveless]

Any one know or scope the ice conditions on the Lower Coleman for ice bouldering this time O year?

TIA

[Zee]

probably too early. Best time is late summer or fall when all the new snow is gone.

[Necronomicon]

You can always go to the glacier toe and lower into some pretty deep crevasses. The icefall will be a mess for a while yet, but 65' of hard, though brittle, ice is available. Purists will argue that the top-rope effect isn't really climbing, but lowering into a dripping, creaking slash and climbing out vertical and over hanging walls is a great way to get a burn, if you ask me.

-Dog

[Coondog]

Sleeveless-

Was on lower Coleman ice 'bouldering' & top-roping a few weeks ago before climbing n ridge. 20" of fresh snow in the week we were there, so think you'd want to be roped up. I can email you a couple pictures of the seracs if you want.

 

--coondog

[Guest]

wait till october. on coflax peak there is a very cool 3 pitch ice route. when i did it i thought it was about WI4/5. maybe because it was my first route of the season. 3 full pitches of pretty much vertical ice. it forms from the snow melt, so conditions have to be just right. remember not to go to the snow field @the top. it makes it hard to rap the route and we had to do some scary downclimbing. we used 2 v threads. i must say it was one of the coolest ice climbs i have ever climbed. the views are fantastic! go do it if it's there.

[Cpt.Caveman]

Kielbasabob,

 

I heard about that route from a friend that was on Baker last week. He sounded psyched to try it. However he did not have the gumption as he was inteding on doing another route... Must be a cool one.

[Guest]

i forgot to mention fa by steve house. we thought we did fa but the bastard was faster and scooped it. i wouldn't think it's formed up right now, but i haven't been there, so i just speculate. both fa and ours were done in october

[Sleeveless]

Yup,

Sept/Oct is a great time .. looking at different options, and seeing if possible now.

Thanks