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Ice/Mixed routes 31-Mar-2006 At 11:49:02 AM uwhp510

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All you need is to secretly plumb a hose from the snow makers to the top of the cliff that (occasionally) forms the enzian icicle. It would only work when cold too, since the snow makers should only work when its below freezing.

The conditions were quite good only on a couple of occasions last year, but if you relax your definition of ice climbing, then I reckon that (at buller at least) some of the best climbing occurs when there is limited ice. For example, the route I did with Dave Wallis last year, Party at the Bosses House, despite having only a very little bit of ice, about 80% of tool placements were in ice, with crampons mostly on rock and it climbed fantastic. Then again, when Steve and I climbed One in the Face, there was a lot of ice and it was all coming down on top of us.