Last Updated on January 8, 2014 by James Dziezynski
Google Earth look at the location of the Jewell Lake Icefall.
Jewell Lake Icefall is a beautiful wall of ice just southwest of Jewell Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park. It’s a fairly popular destination on weekends but most weekdays you’ll have the place to yourself. It’s a quick 3.2 mile hike from the Glacier Gorge trailhead off of Bear Lake Road (about 8.4 miles from the Beaver Meadows Entrance of RMNP) that passes by — or in this case, over — Mills Lake and Jewell Lake.
The crew on the windy approach to Mills Lake.
The Jewell Lake Icefall is IN!
Bouldering around on the icefall. Fun!
Mills Lake was windy as could be but you can't beat a blue, Colorado winter day!
It was a fun little outing and I can’t wait to get back and do some more legit climbing on the ice. All told it’s about 6.2 miles round trip with a modest elevation gain of about 900 feet on the way up. Both Mills Lake and Jewell Lake were frozen hard, so I wouldn’t suggest following my GPS tracks in the summer 🙂
