Yesterday, Nic Ranicar and I climbed the awesome "Riptide" ice climb on the North East face of Mt. Patterson located just north of Bow Summit, Rockies. I finally felt like I had the guns to give this one a go. In it's current form, its a pure ice climb and a lot fatter than its original ascent conditions.
We found steep climbing on all 3 pitches along with thin ice, chandeliery ice, snow-ice mix, overhanging features, and delicate and unprotectable pillars. The good thing is we found good belays and pretty good pro on lead(after some digging). The pitches felt like they went at WI6, WI5+, and WI6+R. Meaning bloody steep and scary!
Nic did a fantastic job of leading the cux pitch and held it together throughout a necky lead.
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