Cody Ice Climbing

Tim, Jaaron, Aarona, Cory and I made it up to Cody this year for some ice climbing.  We all split a super plush cabin right near the climbing which cut our commute to the ice down from an hour to 10 minutes.  It was a great year for ice this year, many routes that rarely form were very fat.  I had a list of classics to do while we were up there but didn't really do any because we kept finding stuff that rarely forms to climb.  We figured we might as well save the stuff that always forms for next year.

Tim following 'Cabin Fever'

 After around 17hrs of driving because of horrible roads, we arrived at our cabin at 1am to -22 degree temps.  Needless to say Tim and I took it easy the next day.  We climbed 'Cabin Fever' with the planned of tacking on 'Wyoming Wave'.  Unfortunetly after climbing CF we walked past WW's first pitch saying, "that can't be it".  Well apparently it was.  After postholing up the wrong drainage for a very long time we finally decided that the small frozen falls we had seen likely was the correct pitch.  We turned around, climbed the pitch and called it a day, skipping the last two pitches.

Tim leading the 4th pitch of 'Spying and Flying'

 The next day we decided to hike in and check out 'Spying and Flying' and Ro Sham Bo'.  Somehow a 2 mile approach took a solid two hours of pretty fast hiking to complete.  Tim had been back there before but luckily for me he hadn't done all the pitches he had wanted to.

Tim following 'Ro Sham Bo'

We got back to the car well after dark but got some great pitches in!

Tim leading 'Sendero Illuminoso'

 After all the hiking the day before we wanted a shorter approach so we opted for 'Sender Illuminoso' which apparently rarely forms as big as it did this year.

Tim following 'Scratch My Itchy'

On what ended up being our last day of ice climbing we climbed 'Super Blue Moon' which is to the left of the uber classic 'High on Boulder'.  We climbed its 3 pitches and continued up the drainage to the spectacular 'Scratch My Itchy'.  What a great way to end a great trip!