MarcusCollins Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 Subject says it all. With the avy situation as grim as it is, still looking for something fun. Probably don't want to wallow too far in the new snow... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanO Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 (edited) My wife and I went out this weekend. Got the camper loaded and drove out as quick as we could on Friday, still it took too long and got caught in the start of the storm over the pass, still made it to leavenworth at 4:30pm. It wasn't that bad except most people want to drive too fast, all is great untill you hit the brakes!! Sat late morning we drove out Icicle road. Deep snows, nothing much around snow lakes trailhead. Drove out to the end of the Icicle road seen some ice along the way nothing great and I wonder how to park to avoid the snow plow. Parked at the end of the road and using the Mark Shipman, Kyle Flick report on www.wenatcheeoutdoors.com. I walked about 5 min up the road there I found some climber's trails heading up hill to the right. According to the report ice is only 30 min up hill. But we didn't bring snow shoes, BIG mistake after a exhausting wallow for a long time we found some small flows and I did a couple of easy leads around 2 to 3 grade. When you top out there is no ice or frozen sod so be warned. So we managed to get in a decent day, up higher there is more ice, not too far away but without snowshoes I figured a 2 two hour slog if lucky!! We were in Leavenworth before Xmas and found ice on millennium wall, I bet ice is still there. Bring snowshoes, ice can be found but you have to work for it. Dan Edited January 8, 2007 by DanO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanO Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 (edited) Hello, Didn't need the snowshoes as much this weekend. Ice is still to be found but you have to work to find it, at least I did find it. Some harder stuff I seen to hard for me to lead yet, harder to find top rop ice. I did find a couple of easy leads, took a short fall to near the ground. The top out was pure snow and puting the axes in bottom shaft down into it doesn't hold much, feet popped off and so did I. This flow was only about 8 feet tall. Found a interesting and easy ice gully on sunday, nice. It was cold around 5 to 10 degrees on sunday a little warmer Sat. Edited January 15, 2007 by DanO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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