When ice is real hard, it shatters and you can get microscopic shards of ice. You don't want them in your eyes.
Other ropers get real heavy when they get wet.
We don't want to leave them. They cost about $75 apiece.
We secure to two trees in case one of them breaks.
These falls are typically always frozen, but they're getting shorter as the snow pack increases.
I've had the first ascents on most of the waterfalls in the Rocky Mountain Front.