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As many of you may have heard, an accident took place on Mt. Washington in Huntington Ravine on Friday, January 18th. Unfortunately it took the the life of Peter Roux, 39, of Bartlett, Tennessee. Roux had gone up to solo Odell Gully that morning and was reported by a close friend as being overdue early that evening. An initial search of the ravine access routes later that evening failed to find him and, due to avalanche danger, search teams did not enter the ravine until around sunrise the next morning. Unfortunately his body was discovered atop avalanche debris at the base of the gully.
I was going to comment on this incident, but based on the thread on the topic in the NEClimbs.com forum and the well reasoned and detailed analysis of the incident on the Forest Service site (http://www.tuckerman.org/accident/20072008.htm), I have decided to forgo this one. The only comment I have is one of my deepest sympathy to his family and close friends. May he rest in peace...
Thanks to the Forest Service personnel, the MWV Mountain Rescue Service, Androscoggin Valley Search and Rescue, the Appalachian Mountain Club, the Harvard Mountaineering Club and the Mount Washington Observatory for assistance in handling this tragic incident.
Ice Conditions Report:
Selected Ice Conditions effective March 21, 2024
I can't actually say that there is nothing out there that can't be climbed. That would be foolish. But for the average, or a little above average climber, that's probably correct. That said, I did hear that there is climbable ice on Parasol in Dixville Notch. Not sure how that will be after we get a foot of heavy wet snow on Saturday. Regardless, here's a few pix I took today just to document things.
Huntington Ravine
AVALANCHE
Repentance
OUT
Standard Route
OUT
Dracula
OUT
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While the ice right now is not as good as it would be if we hadn't gotten the week-long thaw, we're better off than we were last year at this time. Here are some comparison shots from last season and this:
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Remember - climb hard, ride the steep stuff, stay safe and above all BE NICE,
Al Hospers
The White Mountain Report
North Conway, New Hampshire
The hype pretended that M7, or 8, or 12 for that matter, had never before been climbed un thil the current practitioners rap bolted some overhanging choss heap, rehersed it, climbed it, did photo shoots on it, and treated it as commerce.
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.
