TR: Pleiades Canyon

[jumar]

We did Pleiades Canyon on Saturday. The ice was fat, and made for some good climbing. Had a great time!

[stefan]

sweet, jumar :2thumbs:

looks incredible!

[CarpeyBiggs]

awesome! :2thumbs:

[ratagonia]

Awesome. Looks totally fun. :rockon:

Tom ( :moses: )

[Partly Animal]

One more thing to add to my list. Life's too short!!

[Jaxx]

Very cool. That little dude is awesome!

[accadacca]

Ditto on all the "awesome's" :haha: :2thumbs:

[millsclimber]

Very cool. Looks like a lot of fun. :rockon:

[levity]

Super pix, thanks for sharing 'em :2thumbs:

... and a great outing by the young man! :clap: :clap:

[moab mark]

Cool. I showed this to my 8 yr old and he is now ready to give that a whirl.
I couldn't tell from the pictures whether you rappeled down and then climbed back out or did you take the trail back up?

Mark

[jumar]

Cool. I showed this to my 8 yr old and he is now ready to give that a whirl.
I couldn't tell from the pictures whether you rappeled down and then climbed back out or did you take the trail back up?

Mark
We went back up bc we wanted to climb :2thumbs:

[Felicia]

Very nice - the little guy is so cute! :2thumbs:

[lofty]

awesome pics....beautiful ice !!

[ndonaldj]

That looks like a blast! i'd like to give it a try someday : )

[Shan]

Wow, that little kid is a trooper!

[Brian in SLC]

Curious if anyone has any idear of what kind of condition Pleiades might be right now?

Did Hidden Haven by Brian Head last weekend, and, its in pretty good shape, but, was pretty warm on the hike out. My bet is its short for this world as an ice route.

Pleiades is up pretty high. Shane, you get any read on conditions up near the La Sals from being in Moab last weekend? Still snowy up there, I'd assume.

Jumar, what would your rate it as an ice climb? Looks like it could be WI 4? Harder? Easier? How reasonable would it be to just go to the bottom and climb up it? Any sketchyness for topping out a pitch? How was the water flow in winter? Did you bust through any place too deep?

Kinda got the bug for a combo platter multi sport weekend. Could climb and ski, ice climb and rock climb, all the above...

Thanks for any thoughts!

-Brian in SLC

[Brian in SLC]

Bump...paging Jumar...

[Brian in SLC]

Climbed Pleiades on Saturday. Its in good shape. The middle pitch wasn't in (is it ever?). We left a rope fixed there to TR back up the rock to the climber's left, which, probably is rated 5.7/5.8ish with a fairly fun belly flop move. Given the number of crampon scratches there, it'd been done that way a fair bit.

Rest of the ice is in good condition. Gives about 5/6 short pitches of climbing. I'd guess WI 3, for how short the pitches are. Neat, and, the approach in deep snow is now packed out (!).

I'll try to pop up some photo's.

[Iceaxe]

Nice to see you get that one checked off on your to-do list. :2thumbs:

[Brian in SLC]

See if I can link a couple photos...

Bit o' snow on the approach (not the way you want the day to start...but...thankfully it got more supportable around the corner):
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[blueeyes]

Jumar your little boy rocks!

[moab mark]

Thanks for sharing Brian. Did you guys hike down and around and then come up or rappel down and then ascend?

[Brian in SLC]

Snow was kinda deep, so, much easier to just rap the route first. Nice way to suss out the anchor situation as well as make sure the ice pitches all looked viable. The middle pitch wasn't in, but, there's a up climb that's kinda wild fun to the climber's left. We left one of our twin ropes on it, and, TR'd it on the way out. If lead, would protect with a couple of cams, maybe in the 2, 3 and/or 4 camalot range. Slinging the finish chockstone would work too, if the thing didn't pop out (seemed secure).

My bet is that its pretty good for awhile yet. Cold up there. But, it is spring.

Cheers!

[jumar]

Sorry I was mia. Looks like you had fun though!