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This weekend tried ice climbing for the first time.

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  • Lumi AkimovaL

    This weekend tried ice climbing for the first time. With small drytooling experience, soft-ish ice and slightly positive slope it was surprisingly easy. Once did 5 climbs with no breaks, and only stopped because of queue

    Also tried different ice tools: my new Trango Raptor, Petzl Sum'tec and two variations of non striking tools. Non striking are physically easy to to use when ice is not flat, but are harder to trust. Raptors are holding best, but the striking motion is harder to master because of the blade angle. Sum'tecs are just the easiest for beginners

    And this was an actual frozen waterfall!
    (more like a frozen shell around still flowing waterfall, and the ice in the middle was quite thin and not attached to the rock)

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