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I know that all I seem to talk about is the weather, but heavens to Betsy it’s been completely whacked lately. After a week of pretty nice weather, and by that I mean generally in the upper 60’s and sunny, it took a turn for the worse Tuesday morning. And when I say worse, I mean WORSE, as in 4+ inches of wet white stuff falling from the skies! Enough snow that they plow trucks came out around 3 in the afternoon and all afternoon and we got the dreaded automated call with the news that evening school activities were cancelled. Go figure…
Now, although that certainly had an impact on my plans to spend a big part of Wednesday at the cliff and then riding in the woods, to be honest it didn’t last very long. If you were one of those puffy chested young guides, I’m sure you could have taken clients up Upper Refuse or Thin Air. However, I used the day to keep practicing all the tunes that I have to learn for a series of concerts I have coming up over the next several weekends. I did hear that one local guide had driven up to the top of Cathedral before the snow really started to come down to do a rappel class, only to find that it wasn’t possible for his client to drive him back up in the late afternoon. And the road was slick enough that he wouldn’t have wanted to try driving back down even if he’d walked up to get it. Good thing it all melted pretty quickly since both Bear Notch and Hurricane Mountain Roads are both open! Pretty much everyone I know has taken their snow tires off, so that would have been very treacherous. Who would have thought that we would get snow after the winter/spring that we’ve had?
Things have been pretty darn dry and one would think that this would have really have lowered our fire danger. However, it wasn’t nearly enough to have any significant impact. The whole state of NH has been under a HIGH danger fire watch for the past couple of weeks, and unfortunately it doesn’t look as if that’s going to abate very soon. we haven’t had any fires up here, but there have been many small to medium brush fires in the southern part of the state. I would guess it’s just luck that we have escaped, so please stay on the alert. We don’t need that in our local forests.
Ice Conditions Report:
Selected Ice Conditions effective April 24, 2024
It's all over for 2023/2024.
Huntington Ravine
OUT
Repentance
OUT
Standard Route
OUT
Dracula
OUT
For the full current conditions report, CLICK
HERE
PETZL DIRECT CONNECT REVIEW:
If you get a few minutes, check out the out the review of this new Petzl product on the NEClimbs.com web site written by guide Matt Shove. I’ve been using the double version of this device since last winter and I think it’s a pretty cool thing.
http://www.neclimbs.com/index.php?PageName=review&ReviewID=20160428 INSTANT BUG REPORT: Bug CON 0
There are definitely mosquitoes and blackflies out there, but they don’t seem to be biting yet. At least from what I’ve experienced. That said there definitely are ticks around. My son was out last Saturday and picked a couple off in the afternoon. Be sure to check yourself when you come back in. I’m expecting a pretty bad season for them!
VALLEY CYCLING:
The trails have been absolutely fantastic for the past several weeks. I did a 13.6 mile ride on eth west side on Monday and it was wonderful. Although there was some snow on the east side trails where I was riding today, it wasn’t anything to speak of and should be gone tomorrow.
Mobile Version Of NEClimbs:
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:
Check it out and if you have issues on your specific phone, please feel free to let me know.
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