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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.
I am absolutely nuts with stuff going on, so this is short... Check out the GIF of Diagonal coming down. it's 42 degrees and rising here in the Valley at 1pm and it was 35 in the Notch when I took pictures. Predictions are for upper 40's!!!! Anything in the sun is VERY problematic right now. Maybe with the exception of Penguin, Standard and Dracula, but be aware of the top curtains on Standard! There is shaded stuff on Willard, like Hitchcock & the Cleft which will likely be fine. But be sure to protect well.
Huntington Ravine
options, but beware snow
Repentance
NO
Standard Route
IN be aware folks!
Dracula
IN - bring your snorkle
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Al Hospers
The White Mountain Report
North Conway, New Hampshire
Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how fast and efficiently they can do it, but far worse, to see how much faster and more efficiently they are than a party which did the same climb a few days before. The climb becomes secondary, no more important than a racetrack. Man is pitted against man.
Climbing is a very dangerous sport. You can get hurt or even kill yourself. When you go climbing, you do so of your own free will. Everything on this site is to be taken with a grain of salt. Don't blame us if you get up some totally heinous route, in over your head and fall and hurt yourself.
