Another trip to Ouray. Megan and I went in January with Dan and Ashley after having talked about an ice climbing trip for a while. Leaving on a Thursday morning we were able to get in a half day of skiing and riding at Copper Mountain before finishing the drive to Ouray that afternoon/evening. We stayed in the AlpenGlow condos where I have stayed in the past and an inattentive house keeper wound up providing us with an upgrade to a 3 bedroom unit since the two bedroom was trashed still from the previous guests!
Overall we had good weather and made it out to Buen Tiempo for dinner and margs one of the nights. Ashely had never tried ice climbing before this trip but did well despite the lack of experience. Most of our climbing this trip was done in the Grad School and New Funtier areas of the park since warm weather had caused much of what ice was there to have been severely picked out in the lower bridge areas (some of them were even closed, which was a first for me to see).
