New Mixed Routes in VailThe Colorado Mountain Journal has an article showing off some of the new mixed climbs in Vail. They look like good “entry” level climbs for those wanting to get into drytooling.
Also, the conditions page has been updated. Fat ice all over the state.
As being reported at the Colorado Mountain Journal, and Splitter Choss, a climber recently fell 100 feet when the route he was climbing, the Fang in Vail, collapsed underneath him. From the Summit Daily:
“Alan Bosworth, an engineer with the Vail Fire Department, said a portion of The Fang broke loose with the climber on it, sending him plummeting down about 100 feet, the equivalent of a 10-story fall.
Crews from the Vail Fire Department, Eagle County Sheriff’s Office, Vail Mountain Rescue and the Eagle County Ambulance District responded to a call at 1:14 p.m. reporting the fall. It took crews about 45 minutes to snowmobile and hike into the area where the victim had fallen, and about another 45 minutes to get him out.
Scott Smith, owner of the Apex Mountain School, said he has not climbed The Fang this winter and guesses not many people, if any, have climbed it this winter before Tuesday. The formation has only recently filled in to the point where someone might consider leading it, meaning they’re climbing it from the ground up, Smith said.”