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| Page Type: Route Location: Oregon, United States, North America Lat/Lon: 43.68940°N / 121.2536°W Route Type: Ice Climbing Season: Winter Time Required: Half a day Difficulty: WI 3- 6 Number of Pitches: 1
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| Page By: d_shorb Created/Edited: Feb 8, 2007 / Feb 10, 2008 Object ID: 268006 Hits: 951 Loading... Page Score: 87.05% - 4 Votes Loading... Vote: Log in to vote |
Paulina Falls  The righthand falls, right side.  The righthand falls, left side.
Situated at 6250ft., these beautiful west facing falls intermittantly produce up to 80ft of ice of variable quality and difficulty.Even in cold temps, however, the ice can be somewhat elusive, producing only see-through chandeliering spray-on ice. With this said, on both the Left and the Right falls, top ropes and leads can give your party a full day of fun climbing. The approach can be by snowmobile, skis, snowshoes, or postholing/hiking, and is, largely, on groomed snowmobile tracks all the way to the falls. This area is frequented by locals of all kinds, and is especially popular with the snowmobile association that runs the trail system in the winter. NOT SOLELY WORTH THE DRIVE FROM PORTLAND, this might be a great sidebar to a ski/'bile trip around Paulina/Newberry Crater, or a trip along the 395/97 (to Bend or Shasta for example).
Getting There Please see this route's Parent pages for more info. The Newberry Crater National Monument is just east of Hwy 97, between Sunriver and La Pine. In the winter, the road to the Monument is plowed to 10 Mile Snow Park, thus several miles stretch between the car and the falls. Go to theNewberry Crater National Monument's Paulina Falls Page for some info. on it's location within the Monument.
Essential GearRequired:
Top rope and ice gear, local brew
Optional:
Ice pro.
This was a WI3/4 line the day we went. |
Other sites about Paulina Falls:Topozone has this map of it, showing the common approach road just south of the creek.
For some cool photos and statistics (and also some other links), check This Link out.
Or This Other one.
To show the variable amount/quality of the ice I searched, and found that CascadeClimbers had This thread/photo to compare to this page's photos. Images
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Paulina Peak / Newberry Crater
