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Slideshow (19 photos)

Ouray (map)
 

Climbing Boulder

 

The town of Ouray from the Camp Bird Mine Road (county road 361); you can see Cascade Falls in the red cliff band in the background

  Skylight Area

Skylight: Leave the security of the cave on the third pitch; the ice is very unstable here

 

Skylight: Nikos following the second pitch up to the protected cave in the midsection of the chimney

 

Skylight: The awesome 3-pitch Skylight route

 

Skylight: Nikos at the second belay in an ice cave

 

The Camp Bird Mine road, on the walk into the Skylight area (Copyright © Nikos Kopidakis)

  Uncompahgre Gorge
 

Looking southeast from the bridge, routes such as Tangled Up in Blue

 

Looking northwest from the bridge

Unknown: Leading an unknown line between the bridges…looks easy, but it's 4R

 

Tangled Up in Blue: Nikos following the classic and photogenic Tangled Up in Blue on a cold and snowy day

 

Tangled Up in Blue: Topping out in the Uncompahgre Gorge

 

Tangled Up in Blue: Jim and Nikos at the bottom of the gorge, preparing to climb

 

Danger sign found near the entrance to the gorge (Copyright © Nikos Kopidakis)

Tangled Up in Blue: In the gorge, in a sea of ice (Copyright © Nikos Kopidakis)

 

Scoping out routes between the bridges (Copyright © Nikos Kopidakis)

 

Tangled Up in Blue: Rappelling into the base of the gorge to climb Tangled Up in Blue (Copyright © Nikos Kopidakis)

 

Tangled Up in Blue: Nikos topping out (Copyright © Nikos Kopidakis)

 

Tangled Up in Blue: Jim near the top of the climb (Copyright © Nikos Kopidakis)

 

Tangled Up in Blue: Massive amount of ice under the bridge (Copyright © Nikos Kopidakis)