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The thermometer in Rick’s truck topped out at over 50F on the drive down to Maple canyon, so we were all a bit skeptical that there would be any ice to climb when we got

The last time I was on Stairway was four years ago, the first time I climbed with my then-new friend Mike. We got up to the fifth pitch and it was my turn to lead.

The first time I saw Get Whacked I knew instantly that I would never climb it. Since then I’ve belayed a few people on it and toproped it a couple times, but it always seemed

For the third Super Bowl Sunday in a row, SLC ice climbers who could care less about organized sports followed Kyle Dempster’s lead and went up to the half-way ledge of the Great White Icicle

I am not a mixed climber and have never pretended to be. Something about combining the sketchyness of hard aid climbing with the pump of sport climbing and the fear of falling while covered with

This weekend wasn’t too exciting. Just a day of chilling before Jen left for Germany and a day of freezing cold granite with Mike. So, instead of talking about climbing the same routes in LCC

The Wasatch was taking a short break from it’s normal world-class snow conditions, so Scott and I headed north to Bozeman to get in the first couple days of ice climbing for the season. The