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Ice climbers on a cliff on the south side of Waterfall Canyon. This canyon has many quartzite rock walls.

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Beautiful..

Voted 10/10

It is beautiful photo. Congratulation for Photo of the Day.
Tun

Posted Dec 4, 2006 1:16 am


	mountaingazelle	Re: Beautiful..
	Hasn't voted	Thank you, Tun, for the nice compliment!
		Posted Dec 4, 2006 5:24 pm

I'll second that

Voted 10/10

Great photo. Could you breifly explain the ice-climbing difficulty scale? Do they break up waterfall ice as a different system?

Dan

Posted Dec 4, 2006 10:28 pm


	mountaingazelle	Re: I'll second that
	Hasn't voted	Thanks Dan, ice climbing has its own rating system. Here is a brief explanation. WI – Waterfall Ice AI – Alpine Ice M – Mixed The ratings are determined by how steep the route is and how difficult it is to place protection. So a WI1 route would be around 30°. A route rated WI5 would be an 85-90° ice climb. After the technical rating is the estimated time such as a II, meaning the route would take half a day to climb for the average person.
		Posted Dec 4, 2006 11:58 pm


	Dan Dalton	Re: I'll second that
	Voted 10/10	Sounds pretty similar to rock climbing, (what I am used to) with an extra steepness component added. Thanks for the quick clarification. I definately need to try this some time. It can get frustrating trying to find warm and dry crags this time of the year. Dan
		Posted Dec 5, 2006 12:29 am

So cool

Voted 10/10

It's amazing how the ice forms like that all over the rocks...so beautiful. Great photo!

Posted Oct 19, 2008 2:18 pm


	mountaingazelle	Re: So cool
	Hasn't voted	Thanks! The ice on this formation is unusual and doesn’t always form well. It was very snowy and cold so conditions were good.
		Posted Oct 19, 2008 3:17 pm