The Ouray Ice Park

The Ouray Ice Park is a free climbing area for ice climbers. Ice climbs form naturally as waterfalls freeze up in the winter. At the Ouray Ice Park city pipes bring water to the top of the cliff to make more ice. The entire canyon is blanketed in ice for about a quater mile. People come from all over the world to climb here becuase it is the highest concentration of ice climbing anywhere.

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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