Hyalite Ice: Upper Greensleeves

Sam and I needed to climb and get christmas trees so climbing Upper Greensleeves almost seemed appropriate. Neither of us had ever been up there eventhough we have been to the Genesis area a million times. We got in line with the ice fest crowd and got up there in time to claim one of the two major flows up there, the looker's right blue flow compared to the looker's left yellow flow. I lead it with a pleasant, steep, spicy surprise at the top. It goes from pretty low angle to vertical. We top-roped it a few times each and then went down to hunt for christmas trees. We found and harvested two beauties!

It started out covered in snow but we eventually sluffed most of it off. 

Our lil nook in the trees. It never stopped snowing on us.

The Trooper loves to go ice climbing!

My tree with the climb visible above in the trees.

Sam's lil guy.

Plenty of room!