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Several solid days of rain has left most of us in a daze. Thus when the sun came out on Wednesday morning with nary a cloud in the sky, there was a collective and massive sigh of relief in our Valley. I even got out climbing with Brad today up on Mt Forist and it was great. With any luck the weekend will be OK and we will settle back into a more normal weather pattern of mostly sun, with some occasional rain.
ALEX HONNOLD:
Alex Honnold free-soloed El Cap on June 3rd. I saw this headline right after it happened and as I said on Facebook right afterward, "This is almost beyond imagination..." And frankly, it IS beyond my imagination. Someone posted a statement that this may have been the most incredible athletic achievement in history, and I tend to agree. I don't know that anything I can say about it will do his achievement justice, so I'm just going to post the links that I have seen and let you draw your own conclusions.
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
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Standard Route
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Dracula
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VALLEY CYCLING:
After 2 1/2 daze of rain, I took a nice ride on Wednesday afternoon. Amazingly enough the trails on the West side were basically dry. I'm sure that there are places where it's wet, and maybe muddy, but if you stay mainly on the higher trails you're going to be OK. And actually the network around Echo Lake is in great shape. Enjoy...
INSTANT BUG REPORT:
I don't care what anybody says, it's a 4!
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:
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