How does ice form from year to year? A million dollar question for ice climbers and one that has me scratching my head this year. We had a relatively mild fall with lots of warm weather and no doing time locked up in the ice box of minus twenty Celsius, or colder, yet it has […]
Top 10 Rockies Ice Climbs by Barry Blanchard
The latest edition of Gripped Magazine profiles Yamnuska’s Associate Director, Barry Blanchard’s ‘Top 10 Rockies Fat Ice Moderates’. When the good people at Gripped wanted to do an article on Rockies Ice climbing routes, they sought out the master himself. Barry has extensive knowledge of virtually every ice route in the Rockies, he is a […]
