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trent
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Post Vancouver Ice
on: December 12, 2008, 03:04

With the coming ‘cold snap’ in Vancouver, I’m hoping that some ice will form up in the city and immediate surroundings.  Does anyone know where the best chances of finding ice might be in the next week?  I’m thinking that roadside ice on the road up to Cypress is probably a good bet.  And I know there’s a tall but smallish waterfall at the end of Buntzen lake that will probably form up.  But what else? 

I heard that lots of things form periodically around Squamish, but does anything form in Vancouver?

T.

trent
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Post Re: Vancouver Ice
on: December 12, 2008, 08:52

Hmmm… in this digital age, it had actually slipped my mind.  I’m also assuming - since Vancouver freezes like this about 1 in 10 years - that the City of Vancouver probably doesn’t figure prominently in the WC Ice guide.  Still, I’ll swing by the MEC and check it out.

dru
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Post Re: Vancouver Ice
on: December 12, 2008, 13:30

There are these amazing new inventions called guidebooks that were devised ENTIRELY to collect, share and make available information of this sort!

The one you want is called West Coast Ice.

dru
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Post Re: Vancouver Ice
on: December 13, 2008, 00:04

first route listed in the guide is on the Stanley Park Seawall… guess again.

dru
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Post Re: Vancouver Ice
on: December 14, 2008, 01:26

there’s not many waterfalls in west van and cypress falls is too high-volume to ever freeze - even with 2 weeks of -10C.

trent
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Post Re: Vancouver Ice
on: December 14, 2008, 01:49

I looked at the West Coast Ice guide at MEC yesterday, and there are several ice climbs in Vancouver, including a 100m gully on Burnaby Mountain!  With the projected several days of cold weather, lots of stuff will hopefully form.  It’s interesting that there was no mention of anything in West Van though.  I would think that lots of stuff might freeze up out there, given sufficiently cold weather.

I’m pretty excited to dig out my ice-climbing gear, actually.  Although I am a little bummed at the same time, because I’ve been pretty busy cleaning a bunch of new bouldering off on the north shore, and was hoping to start working on them this week.

Thanks for the beta, Dru.

T.

dru
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Post Re: Vancouver Ice
on: December 15, 2008, 08:11

I never found climbable ice in the Cypress Falls area and I spent a decade or so looking.

trent
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Post Re: Vancouver Ice
on: December 15, 2008, 10:33

What about the walls of the Cypress Falls canyon?  Should be lots of seeps that should form pitches of fairly steep ice.  Also, there are some tall roadcuts on the way up to Cypress Bowl - lots of them are always seeping, so should form lots of ice (hopefully).  I think my best bet so far will be the gully on Burnaby Mountain - after that I’ll have to cruise the city looking for ice. 

Of course, I have so far been unable to find anyone who actually wants to go ice climbing in Vancouver…

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