Star Babies

Rating: WI5
Length: 1,000 feet
Pitches: 4 distinct pitches

These four steps of broken ice are nearly as spectacular as Broken Dreams and located about ten minutes upstream. The first pitch is 200 feet of a very fat pillar called “Fat Pig”, WI4, similar to Valdez‘s Rain Check.

For more information refer to Roman Dial’s Chitistone Canyon Ice Climbs Guide .

From Roman Dial in November 2020: “Chuck and I almost got in a fight at the base of this….hence the name: rhymes with “cry babies”, but also perhaps the best of the big ice routes we did.”

FA: Eric Breitenberger, Chuck Comstock, Roman Dial, Carl Tobin, January 1987.

Descent: V-thread

Posted by: Ty Gaenzle, November 10, 2020.

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