All Mixed Up

All Mixed Up is the obvious line angling up and left out of the cirque. Conditions were not nearly so fat on Sunday.

Saturday night it seemed that all motivation was lacking for an alpine adventure the following morning, but somehow Josh and I rallied in the morning and headed up to Glacier Gorge in the park to get on All Mixed Up (600', III, WI4 M4 R). This is one of the most classic moderate ice routes in RMNP and it follows an obvious line out of the cirque on the NE face of Thatchtop. After a fair slog we discovered, not to our suprise, a party ahead of us. To avoid the icy debris cascading down from the other party we chose a route slightly to the right for the inital pitches. All Mixed Up is currently quite lean and our chosen line made the ice even more sparse, but no matter, we were excited to try a little mixed climbing. In the end our climb proved to be a bit more difficult than expectations, but the challenge was good for both of us.