This is the ice in twin falls after a cold spell. Lots of great routes.

mushrooms are amazing things...oh wait, this is real...

Smith Kennedy climbs up the steep early portion of Bonita, WI 4, Snake River Canyon, Idaho. Photo by Jason Cronk, Dec 18 2005.

Smith Kennedy enjoying the brittle ice on Bonita, Snake River Canyon, Idaho. Photo by Jason Cronk Dec 18, 2005.

Photo taken after pulling a large icicle into my face on The Dirty One, WI6, Dec 17 2005, during particularly brittle conditions. Photo by Sam Eurich, climber Jason Cronk.

Photo of lower portion of Chromemoly during cold, brittle conditions. Climber Smith Kennedy, Photo by Jason Cronk, Dec 18 2005.

Sam Eurich enjoying the brittleness of The Gully WI 3+, Snake River Canyon. Photo by Jason Cronk Dec 18 2005.

Smith Kennedy starts up Bonita, WI 4, Snake River Canyon, Idaho. Photo by Jason Cronk, Dec 18, 2005.

Nick LaMastra climbing The Gully in leaner-than-normal condition. Photo by Jason Cronk, 2004.

Photo of one of many steep routes in the Snake River Canyon this year. The routes didn't come in as fat as some years, so they all tend to be WI 5 or more this season. This is one of the routes that we just discovered this year, a couple miles from the MotherLode. Photo by Nick Lamastra, climber is me, Feb 2004.

Another of the thinner-than-normal routes in the Snake River Canyon. The left 2/3 of the steep pillar was too pocketed and runnelled to use. Route was 95' long, steep in the middle, thin and detached above the pillar. Photo by Nick LaMastra, climber is me. Feb 04.

Climbing up onto the steeper section, snow coming down. Ice thinned out after this stretch. Photo by Nick LaMastra, climber is me, Feb 2004.

My partner Nick laughing as he psyches up for the steeper climbing. Right after I lowered off, the snow stopped and photos got easier. Photo by Jason Cronk, climber Nick LaMastra, Feb 2004.

One of the lines we did in a new area of the Snake River Canyon. Routes typically started off with ramps and vertical bulges, gradually getting steeper as we climbed. All routes thinned out to 2-3" thick, detached, and drytool to the finish (WI5+/6R), 170 ft. Photo by Jason Cronk, climber Mark Hauter, Jan 2004.

Remember: Never place screws above your head....unless it's steep, brittle, and thin. The climber violating one of the basics of ice is me. Route in the MotherLode area of the Snake River Canyon. Photo by Michael Johnston, Jan 2004.

Another route (WI hard) that we did in early Feb, in a new section of the Snake River Canyon. It was 170 feet long, with a nasty finish, which I'm contemplating in the photo. Thin, bad ice, to tool stacking in frozen dirt clumps to brush. Fun? Photo by Nick LaMastra, climber is me, Feb 2004.

Nearing the sketchy top of one of the new lines in the Snake river Canyon. Photo by Jason Cronk, climber is Mark Hauter, Jan 2004.

Second photo of Mark H on the unnamed mixed route in the Snake River Canyon. He's swinging into the ice up around a roof, just after a few drytool moves up the rock underneath. The route went at WI5, M?. Photo Feb 2004, Jason Cronk.

Mark Hauter, LaGrande, OR, reaching for a screw. A steep line, with some good dry tooling up a rock seam (just above in the photo), followed by a fun overhang. 95' long, WI5, M?. Photo by Jason Cronk, Feb 2004.

Photo is of the lower crux on The Dirty One, WI6, Snake River Canyon, Idaho. (I'd accidentally deleted the photo a while ago). Photo was taken in April 2002 by Mark Weber.

Photo of me on The Gully. The route is 100' long, and connects ice bulges (some thin) up into a narrow mixed gully to anchors. Photo by Sarah Cronk, 2002.

This is me on Last Laugh, WI5 in the Snake River Canyon. Good steep route with solid screws. Photo 2002.

Photo is of Jason Cronk on Laugh-A-Minute, WI5, in the Snake River Canyon, Idaho, 2002. The route is approxiately 90 feet long, with an overhanging section as the crux (see photo).