Ice Climbing

  • Ice Climbing,  Mountaineering Trips

    Ouray Ice Festival, Colorado

    This time around I felt more comfortable being on the ice. Some days things went so natural and others it was still very frustrating. The axe movement sometimes was perfectly in, other times not at all. Not to mention that my left arm was not 100% reliable and I was covered in body bruises. I think I have to move a bit from the safe zone and “trust the rope” as they say – so I can try more moves. Some pics below. Just to be clear I’m not the person in red, not yet that advanced. I’m the one in yellow and blue.

  • Ice Climbing

    Ice Climbing, Ouray, Co

    Colorado, Uray I’ve been following my boyfriend around for this first time experience. I was actually pretty excited to try to climb a frozen waterfall!! 😱😱😱 We arrived at the canyon and everything looked unreal. The entire canyon was showing traces of waterfall that was frozen. People were climbing left and right, up and down. It was frightening to look down over the cliff and see people making their way up with ice axes. We stopped at a fire pit where we put our harness and crampons on. I kind of knew the gist, putting harness, crampons, gloves, hat. At least that part I had it figured out. However what…