Tag: Drytooling
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Farewell to Bozeman + the Penitent Path
00 Concluding a productive (and abbreviated) Hyalite season After leaving Ouray, Colorado in late February, I headed towards Bozeman for my last scheduled commitment — a graduate school recruiting visit. The following month of March was then spent in Bozeman with the exception of a short trip to Utah. No commitments. No plans. Just the…
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The Heretic Anthem
00 How we got here Above Bridal Veil Falls, past some mank fixed lines, and in a chossy cave located in Provo Canyon, UT, The Heretic Anthem (D10+) is a new drytooling route put up by Vitaliy Musiyenko this year in January. The inspiration for drytooling in Provo Canyon came from my drive going from…
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The novice ice climber goes to Ouray
The novice ice climber goes to Ouray, Colorado to climb ice. This novice ice climber has read Will Gadd’s article on leading ice and is on a mission to top-rope 150 pitches of ice before considering to lead—he is at 109 pitches. The novice ice climber climbs with another fellow novice ice climber at the…
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Reflections from Hyalite Canyon
00 Introduction I started ice climbing in 2023—well, actually, it started with drytooling—but my first time on ice wasn’t until January, 2024. Consuming as much online information as possible, I came across Will Gadd’s rule of toproping 150 pitches of ice before even considering to lead. By the end of my second season, I was…