Ice at Pinnacles

[mungeclimber]

So in the event a multi night cold snap after a heavy downpour, where should we head to first to ice climb at Pinnacles?

The short fall on the creek on the drive into the East Side?
The caves on the East Side?
The dam spillway?
Don Genaros Waterfall?
Bongloadash?
Grotto next to Flume?
Short waterfall near Gameshow?


edit - added from below posts...
Condor Chimney
Great Spectacular grotto




what other viable options are there?


And no, Lava Falls will never seep enough to be anything other than mixed with a death icicle at the top.

[squiddo]

Rob-

have you considered running some hoses along the top of Lava?

 

[F4?]

A. Bongloadash

B. The caves on the East Side

C. Great Condor Chimmney?

Grotto next to Great Spectacular?

D. Fire place @ the Inn @ Pinnacles

Seriously, take some blue tarp and redirect the water drainage into 1 of the balconies waterchutes....

[squiddo]

A. Bongloadash

B. The caves on the East Side

C. Great Condor Chimmney?

Grotto next to Great Spectacular?

D. Fire place @ the Inn @ Pinnacles

Seriously, take some blue tarp and redirect the water drainage into 1 of the balconies waterchutes....

HA, can you imagine? I think that might be a tad visible from the parkinglot/giantvisitorcenter. Camo tarps?

[mungeclimber]

Rob-

have you considered running some hoses along the top of Lava?

 

Not if Gavin keeps climbing Balconies routes.

Closures start when again? 

[squiddo]

Next Tuesday? Get some

[mungeclimber]

hrm, road will be open still, so ice is thrice as nice

[squiddo]

Thrice? No way:-)

I hear you, that's how I feel when its open- 70 and the gang heads to the Pinns.

[mynameismud]

There will never be decent ice on the Balconies.  They get way to much Sun.

[mungeclimber]

decent ice?  LOL


I was thinking any possibility of ice anywhere, not necessarily decent. Just climbable.

[Jake M.]

My guess for ice would be that fern chamber on the end of discovery wall- the one that is closed to climbing. But it would take some gnarly climate changes to freeze that up. Who knows, maybe we are headed that way...

I remember some ugly but possibly climbable ice along Stevens Canyon road on the way to Castle rock years ago. Anyone remember that? It had to be in the early to mid 90s.

[mynameismud]

Yep, the road also had some wicked black ice on it.

[MtnStephen]

Yup. And was I bopping along on my way to work on my trusty olde Kz400 and get a painful reminder lesson in the adiabatic lapse rate, temperature inversions, and that yes, those signs are correct. Bridges really DO freeze before the rest of the road. Ouch.
It had been a nice sunny warm morning on top of the hill, and ice was the last thing on my mind.

[F4?]

It the limestone seep on the canyon road...limbed it hrs ago.

[squiddo]

It the limestone seep on the canyon road...limbed it hrs ago.

Spell check much? Is that Dutch?

[mynameismud]

Last thing on your mind but the first thing on your bum?

Yup. And was I bopping along on my way to work on my trusty olde Kz400 and get a painful reminder lesson in the adiabatic lapse rate, temperature inversions, and that yes, those signs are correct. Bridges really DO freeze before the rest of the road. Ouch.
It had been a nice sunny warm morning on top of the hill, and ice was the last thing on my mind.

[rhyang]

You don't necessarily need ice to ice climb .. chalk cliffs of Dover come to mind 



A nice quiet roadcut in the Santa Cruz mountains somewhere might be just the thing !

[F4?]

Spell check much? Is that Dutch?

It's a new language, courtesy of Apple.

[cobbledik]

You don't necessarily need ice to ice climb .. chalk cliffs of Dover come to mind 

Does that even count for dry tooling? more like chalk tooling, mud tooling, sand tooling?

[waldo]

I've wondered about that waterfall in the big grotto on the SW side of Flumes.