With a foot or more of new snow on the Front Range Jenn, Jeremy and I decided rock climbing was out, so we went up to Lincoln Falls in Park county to check out the ice climbing.
Two other parties were already at the main flow when we arrived. The first continued up for a couple pitches.
Jeremy and I scrambled around on the right side of the flow, and were able to get above the first pitch to setup a top-rope anchor.
This being our first ice climbing of the season, none of us were super motivated to lead and were happy to just work out the kinks of our stale technique on top rope.
The pair of climbers next to us contained one ice newby, so we both setup top-ropes then traded off for more variety.
The ice was pretty well formed, but had some flowing water underneath in a few spots. One interesting spot was termed the “window” for the view behind the ice to the flowing stream. Lower down, some water was seeping though the ice and would ball up on crampons if not avoided.
After several laps each we broke down the anchor and hiked away from the now crowded spot. Seems a lot of other people had the same idea.
