Dave's Ice Climbs
Welcome to my Ice Climbing section. Of the various types of mountaineering, I must say that ice climbing
isn't really one of my favourites, but I do like it better than rock. Doing too much ice can lead to you
getting out of shape (cardio-wise). The approaches are usually quite short (under and hour) and once you
are on the route, you're never working up a sweat.
As with all forms of mountaineering (scrambling, skiing, alpine climbing, etc.) there is a definative book
for finding route information. It's titled, "Waterfall Ice, Climbs in the Canadian Rockies"
and it's by Joe Josephson. Much like Dougherty's book, I have no intention of climbing every route
in the book. A lot of routes in this book are class WI-5 or higher. I must say that I don't have the desire
to climb ice at that level. I merely climb waterfall ice to pass the "transition time" from alpine climbing
and scrambling to ski mountaineering. There is usually a 2 month period where there is not enough snow in
the mountains to do ski mountaineering and too much snow to do scrambles or alpine climbs. That's when I ice
climb.
Now, breaking up this section was tough. I don't want to list every climb in the book as I did for the
scrambles section, so I've chosen to break it up in my own way:
Ice Climbs by Area
| |
Waterfall |
Date Last
Climbed |
Height Gain |
Technical
Grade |
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