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Derek Franzen - May 18, 2005 12:15 am - Voted 10/10
Cool...Too bad you couldn't see it happen. Once while we were in the Coleman serac field (practicing ice climbing) we observed the ice face on Colfax calve off. The chunk of ice was at least 200' wide and perhaps 50' high. Watching it fall made my guts hurt. Of course it fell directly across the Coleman standard route (busy weekend too).
We immediately headed up-hill expecting to pull bodies out of the debris. When we arrived we found only a couple of climbers who had been underneath the face when it calved and running (with chunks of ice the size of small houses flying around them) made it through, scarred but unhurt.
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