マウンテンハードウェアのインスタグラム(mountainhardwear) - 2月23日 23時30分

I'm @timemmett, super excited to takeover Mountain Hardwear's Instagram and talk about some ice climbing. I just put up a new route in Helmcken Falls with @klemenpremrl!
It always blows me away the scale of Helmcken Falls, it’s much bigger than it looks.

Our mission was to find a line that had enough ice on it to climb to the lip. Every year the spray ice covers up the bolts placed from the years before so it takes time to find them. We also borrowed the secret weapon (a metal detector) from a friend of ours, Will Gadd which we used to find bolts. Sometimes the ice is 10 feet thick so locating bolts in this isn't an option.

The ice is formed by the spray freezing is much softer than water ice and screws don't hold, so to climb past the thicker sections you have to run it out and climb without additional protection! One of the advantages of the soft ice is that the huge 30ft daggers hanging from the ceiling, can be knocked off with minimal force so we ‘clean’ the pitch before trying to climb it.

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