Climbing Extreme

Picture above: One of the tower featurs by Mika Narinen.

It seems that this year our ice climbing tower project is finally in a good shape. I took my first few lines a few days ago. The accumulation of ice has been good. It seems that we might even, atleast in principle, get the tower to the shape required by national championships, at least from the ice perspective. As you can see from the images below, it has icicles, it has over hangs and lots of difficult ice. So, it’s a good practice. While it seems good, the project has suffered from several difficulties also this year. The pipes have frozen several times, we have lost the recharger couple of times and the tower has been about to freeze inside (i.e. no way to up, except by leading).

Update 20.1.2011: Added another gallery of images showing the tower at night. We’re climbing there with a few of my friends. And for those of you, who’re interested, the specifications:

Structure: Old construction crane
Height: ~24m (the tower) + ~8m (quarry) = ~32m

Few images from our tower (January 2011):

Few images from our tower at night (January 2011):

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