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December 18, 2003
Hi Folks,
MORE RAIN? Can you believe it? I almost can't
believe it myself. Wednesday's rain event dropped almost 3 1/4
inches of rain here in North Conway. This month alone we've already
had well over 6 inches. While not a record, it's pretty darn close.
I haven't seen anything like it in the 6 years I've been up here.
The south side of West Side Road was closed for several hours this
morning due to the Saco flooding, and the north side at the First
Bridge near town was even closed for a while.
I was up at Lake Willoughby on Tuesday. We couldn't have picked
a better day to climb: no wind, temps just at freezing, and totally
bluebird skies. All in all a super day. Amazingly enough we were
the only people at the cliff the entire day. We decided to do 20
Below Zero and had to pound through knee and waist deep snow to
get up to the climb. Well at least it got us warmed up! <grin> We
got a late start so it was running water over Dave on first pitch.
He belayed a little to the right, and it turned out to be in a
waterfall. I took the second pitch and definitely got rained on
as well. Still it was a near-perfect day. Afterward we plowed across
to the Tablets. They were in fat and even Crazy Diamond was in
good shape! A ride up the road showed that the bottom of the Gentleman
and Promenade were thin. Overall there is plenty of ice to be found
up there and I would say that this last rain hasn't killed it off
all that much.
Here are a couple of pictures from Willoughby:
Mt. Pisgah from the South End
Dave Powers on 20 Below Zero
2nd pitch of 20 Below Zero
Crazy Diamond
Center Tablet
Up on one of the Mount Washington Valley's finest crags and want to know what that climb you're looking at is? Or maybe you're on your way up from Boston and want to check out the Ice Report for your upcoming weekend plans. Or more likely, you're at work just want to daydream about your next adventure. Well if you have a smart phone handy, you can get to NEClimbs from anywhere you have cell service. While it doesn't offer every single feature of the site and it's not an "app", in mobile form, it does do a whole lot and is very useful. Here is the live link to the mobile version of NEClimbs:
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Check it out and if you have issues on your specific phone, please feel free to let me know.
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Have fun and climb safe,
Al Hospers
The White Mountain Report
North Conway, New Hampshire
| All ice is dangerous. Grade 4 pillars are pumpy. Grade 5 pillars are pumpy and dangerous. Except for certain rare days of triple-high biorythms and favorable planetary alignments, grade 6 is beyond reach. |
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