East Rosebud Ice

East Rosebud couldnt be more on the way to Cody so it hard to drive by without spending at least one day climbing. Sam and I spent almost 4 hours hiking over 2k' up just to reach the ice. We wanted to climb the mega classic California Ice. This was my second attempt. Unluckily there were already climbers (from Bozeman) on the route making it impossible to climb safely. The climb is at least 4 pitches long and any ice or rocks that fall down, fall down the whole thing. We sat and watched them climb and the ice fall down and Im confident in the decision we made. Our consolation prize was a 40M WI4 flow to the left that we called Hawaiian Ice. I lead it up to a tree and brought Sam up. It made for some great pictures of the crew on Cali Ice. We were back to the truck before it got dark and took off for Cody.

Hawaiian Ice is the far left flow. Cali Ice is the main flow.