MORE HOGPEN GAP, GEORGIA

     The cliff is located at 3,400 feet of elevation and faces due north.  During the winter snow covers the ground here regularly.   Almost anytime precipitation falls the road ices and is closed by the D.O.T.  If you are caught driving around the barricade then you will be ticketed.  

     The climbing here consists of short steep road-cut water ice.  Most of the routes tend to be vertical from start to finish.  Three routes here are bolted for safe leading when only verglass has formed.  By the time the bolts freeze over it's time to start turning screws.

SOME PICS FROM THE WAY BACK MACHINE.

PIC 1:  REMEMBER GALIBIER SUPERGUIDES, LYCRA AND WOOL SWEATERS?

PIC 2:  REMEMBER FLEECE, MITTENS AND PINK BEING THE COOL COLOR?

PIC 3:  REMEMBER PATAGONIA H2"NO" AND WOOL BALACLAVAS?

     The weather pattern here is as strange as I have ever encountered.  I have heard more than one Himalayan climber remark that it is the coldest place on earth.  I live 45 minutes away and regularly run up for a morning of turning screws to return to 70 degree temps back at the house.  If the lows drop into the 30's for more than a couple of days in Atlanta then there is ice to climb.

VARIOUS OTHER ROUTES

SOME RANDOM BOULEDERING SHOTS

after dark solo mission

ice climbing by state

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