Ice Climbing Equipment

For those of you who have no idea of what ice gear looks like. The axes are for climbing, hacking out ice, and pounding in gear. The screws are screwed into the ice and clipped to a rope with a carabiner. The screws are used as anchors to protect the climber.

Ice Climbing in the San Juan Mountains

July 16th 2009
This is an older trip, I am mostly just trying to figure out how to get the pictures to work properly and make sure I know how everything works. I took a 2 week trip to the San Juan mountains in Southern Colorado to go ice climbing and skiiing. We left with no particular plan or schedule, just to climb and ski as much as we could. We stayed in a fairly affordable cabin at a great rate (Rivers ... read more

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