while we wait for winter - dry-tooling?

[montypiton]

Icicle Canyon, as of last spring, sports a newly configured dry-tooling venue: on the climber's-right wall of Rainbow Gully, directly above the outflow from the main falls, anchors have been constructed on trees/bushes, providing top-rope access to a handful of mossy wet overhung lines. The driest of these lines has a bolt/chain anchor about sixty feet off the deck. This anchor can be accessed by lead (if you're up to it - I've not seen anyone lead it yet), or by rappel from the "upstream" top anchor. The bad news is that the top anchors are not walking accessible: ya gotta climb one of several wet mossy corners to reach them -- easy, but wet/mossy/slippery, I've yet to see anyone do it unroped. The access corners may be less unpleasant when frozen. Thus far, I'm aware of five locals using the area. Jonesing for ice? Join us!

[genepires]

why not fix some old thick rope up that nasty corner?

[wetslide]

There's also a short couple of drytool lines on White River Road.

[Alex]

neat, thanks for the public service!