Lee Vining/Eastern Sierra Ice Festival

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Anne Schenk

Ice climber

Lee Vining/Portland

Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 19, 2014 - 03:45pm PT

I am putting together a group of stakeholders and interested volunteers to work on planning and producing the Eastern sierra/Lee vining Ice festival for 2015/2016. Please contact me if interested, we will be holding a meeting in Lee Vining in October, so stay tuned.

adikted

Boulder climber

Tahooooeeeee

Sep 19, 2014 - 07:38pm PT

Interested in volunteering...but can't make the meeting...pm me and I will
Give ya my email...hope we get some wet stuff would be a great time!!

greg

rockermike

Trad climber

Berkeley

Sep 19, 2014 - 09:22pm PT

hope you're planning some kind of 'ice farming'. we could make lee vining into a climber's destination resort.

Stewart Johnson

climber

lake forest

Sep 19, 2014 - 09:28pm PT

Fat Dad

Trad climber

Los Angeles, CA

Sep 19, 2014 - 09:50pm PT

Man that's a boatload of people. Sounds cool, but I can't imagine the hordes for an ice festival. Pray there isn't a big dump just before. The avy danger would shut you down.

Ryan Tetz

Trad climber

Bishop, CA

Sep 20, 2014 - 04:20am PT

That's a great idea. Good for local guides, good for getting the rare handful of CA folks into ice a bit. It's too bad there is almost no steep mixed climbing in CA or we could have an amaateur comp to make a little event. My fruit boots continue to collect dust since crossing state lines!

Stewart Johnson

climber

lake forest

Sep 20, 2014 - 08:04am PT

Pray for Rain

Capt.

climber

some eastside hovel

Sep 20, 2014 - 08:21am PT

The place is a zoo every weekend. A fest? Not really sure I can get behind this idea. :-/

Capt.

climber

some eastside hovel

Sep 20, 2014 - 09:04am PT

I was also going to ask what SCE would have to say about this. Does anyone remember when the guy was injured on SCE property at the roadside ice in June and SCE closed it to ice climbing(although it doesn't stop people)???
It is a privilege to be able to access that ice, all we need is some circus to end that. Poor idea in my book.

Fat Dad

Trad climber

Los Angeles, CA

Sep 20, 2014 - 10:39am PT

Didn't mean to sound like a wet blanket in my earlier post but Lee Vining isn't Ouray. Unless you have some way to farm alot more ice and eIiminate access issues, I have a hard time seeing you being able to capably handle the mobs, assuming the conditions cooperate.

HighTraverse

Trad climber

Bay Area

Sep 20, 2014 - 12:05pm PT

Don't it always seem to go
You don't know what you've got till it's gone,
Pave paradise, put up a parking lot
(Joni Mitchell from the Way Back Machine)

cuvvy

Sport climber

arkansas

Sep 23, 2014 - 12:02am PT

That looks hideous. The crowds... Not the ice

TwistedCrank

climber

Released into general population, Idaho

Sep 23, 2014 - 06:27am PT

Spam less bump

Roots

Mountain climber

Tustin, CA

Sep 23, 2014 - 08:04am PT

Sounds good - keep us posted!

Piotr

Ice climber

San Diego

Oct 15, 2015 - 10:52am PT

Agree it can be a zoo on the wknds. But, Ouray is a zoo every day of the week during the ice season... Great idea with potential, just foresee a few problematic hurdles. Never the less worth the effort. Count me in for any assistance.