Best BC Ice

[BendGirl]

I am looking for info on the best location for BC Ice climbing, waterfall and mixed in January. Anyone have ideas?

[Alex]

Stanley Headwall

[G-spotter]

Hope if it's in!

[Cobra_Commander]

apparently it's the portland rock gym

[G-spotter]

Only if you're a fruit driver

[Cobra_Commander]

now don't upset the applecart

[danshorb]

BC would seem like THE place to score big on consistant Maritime climate ice in January (esp. alpine), though BC also boasts its sweet eastern Continental (water ice) climate. A long day or two drive would put you in Canmore, Alberta. Twelve hours from Bend to Provo Canyon, UT, or the Stettner on the Grand. Ah, Adventure planning, good luck.

Edited September 27, 2006 by danshorb

[l0930]

A couple of sweet lines come in around Hope, BC. Alberta ice is the real shit though. PM for beta

[RemoWilliams]

What kind of beta does one need when there is a fat guidebook and the season is 6 months long

[G-spotter]

ssssh it's a secret fat guidebook!

[Cobra_Commander]

yeah but there are the top secret sweetest heavily picked out lines to climb well above your leading grade with quarks that no one knows about.

[G-spotter]

which of course, all those pdx hardmen with drytool skillz honed from running laps on rocky butte classics, will totally dominate - if they can get the secret beta.

send pm and $25

[Cobra_Commander]

I hear they might even drive fruit bareback these days.

[powderhound]

you guys are searching hard for a bite... trying to start a

Edited September 28, 2006 by powderhound

[John Frieh]

which of course, all those pdx hardmen with drytool skillz honed from running laps on rocky butte classics, will totally dominate - if they can get the secret beta.

send pm and $25

 

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[layton]

Bendgirl. Here's my advice. Buy a guidebook. Watefall ice by Joe Josephson and West Coast Ice by Don Serl. Open it to the Map Section, find where you want to climb. Flip to that part of the guide and find routes you want to climb. Read about the season they are in. If it doesn't say, search message boards for that area with the name of the climb(s) you want to go do.

[G-spotter]

chance "BendGirl" is a guy = 50%

[G-spotter]

chance Layton would have replied with useful beta to someone named "BendGuy" = 0.00004%

[layton]

which is why my beta was posted in a cantankerous way

[sill]

The ice in Field is probably the best, most consistant ice of varying difficulty levels in BC. Field is cheap to stay in as well. You can squat in the visitors center-which is my preferred bivy spot.

[dbb]

heated visitors center?

[sill]

Moderately heated. It is a good place to cook and dry your shit out. If you have a truck or a van, it is better to sleep in it in the parking lot-as not to get harrassed by the RCMP. Sleeping in your vehicle in Field isn't quite as cold as Canmore or Banff. All of this assumes a low profile.

[RemoWilliams]

When filling up your truck now costs twice as much as the average cheapo motel room, the idea of sleeping in your vehicle in winter temps with >12hrs of darkness strikes me as an excellent way to wake super motivated and so happy you want to just hug everyone in sight

[G-spotter]

And you could melt tomorrow's water by sleping with snow-filled Nalgenes, if you wanted to double the fun.

[carversprint]

wander up further north & east for more sure bets.