Hubba Hubba, January 10

Sketchy, Denny, Megan and I headed out to Leavenworth for some ice climbing. On the way over it was interesting to see our usual summer rock climbing destinations covered in snow and icicles. We got to Hubba Hubba and found the entire contents of Stone Gardens there. We ran in to Genevieve and Jeremy on the trail and caught up with Mike and Matt as they were unpacking at the base.

Seattlites

There were 8 of us and 3-ish lines so things got split up pretty reasonably. Sketchy and I got an anoymous line between HH Left and HH Center. Unfortunately Sketchy broke a crampon about 3/4 of the way up the first pitch, had to downclimb to his last screw, and then lower down so I could give him my left crampon. Trying to do the higher pitches with 2 people and 1.5 sets of crampons didn’t seem like a great idea, so after I followed the route we rapped down. Everyone else was still finishing their routes and descending, so I did get to lead about half of the pitch to a tree, my first lead on ice (though it probably shouldn’t count, since I spent half the time digging out the tree so I could get to the trunk and set an anchor).

Hubba Hubba Left/Center