Welcome to Southforkice.com
The Valley
The South Fork ice climbing is like NO other ice in the Northern Rockies. The Valley has literally hundreds of frozen waterfalls each year. Many climbers visit the Valley season after season and still haven't climbed many of the waterfalls here. Climbers leave here experiencing one of the largest concentrations of frozen waterfalls they have seen and climbed in the lower 48, returning home to tell others about this beautiful area, which is increasing the interest here on the South Fork each season. Since the days of the local pioneers, the Valley has been explored to find innumerable waterfalls identified, climbed and rated WI3-7.
Southforkice.com is an informational website to tell you about our Annual "Waterfall Ice Roundup" each Presidents Day weekend in February. We enjoy the many that attend each year that keep coming back to enjoy this magnificent, friendly and exciting place. The Valley has mountaintops that rise over 11,400 feet allowing for the vertical ice season to start as early as October and last through April. A special thanks to my family, climbing partners, Roundup participants, the Double Diamond X Ranch, event sponsors, local outfitters and air pilots for each year helping in the continued success of southforkice.com.
Enjoy your visit and climb safely.
Don Foote, Jr.
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Don, Suzi, Anna & Isabelle Foote
Don first learned of local ice climbing on the South Fork in 1989 when he was employed at a downtown Cody climbing retail shop. Don moved away to Colorado from 1992-1997 where he began honing his skills in ice climbing. Since his early days of ice climbing he has taken climbing lessons from many climbers, guides and climbing schools in the Northern Rockies. Though Don has never left the lower 48 for ice climbing, he has experienced many 14,000 peaks, Ouray, Vail, Hyalite Canyon and other popular places in the Northern Rockies. When Don returned to Cody in 1997 he would get together regularly with other climbers for informal camping/climbing weekends. Don enjoyed this so much that it compelled him to organize the 1st annual ice climbing festival in the South Fork Valley in 1998 and he has enjoyed doing so ever since.
"The Southfork Valley offers more ice here then all the other places I've been combined."
Don has training with the (MRA) Mountain Rescue Association, he is a current member of (NASAR) National Association for Search & Rescue, a member of (SPRAT) Society of Professional Rope Access Technicians, the 2006 Vice-chairman for (WYSAR) Wyoming Search and Rescue Association and owner of Wyoming Rescue Source here in Cody. |
A very special thanks to our event sponsors.
Please visit our sponsors by clicking on the logos or clicking on the sponsors link at the top.
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