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From one extreme to the other... SHEESH! Climbing last Friday on Whitehorse in shorts and t-shirt, yesterday in t-shirt on Mt Forist in Berlin and then today waiting for a nor'easter to arrive, bringing somewhere between 4-6" in the Valley and possibly much more in the higher elevations. I don't even know what to say...
Mt Forist on Wednesday with Matt Bowman. The cliff was totally dry everywhere we looked. We got in 2 nice pitches after cutting down a tree that had fallen over the start to Skaty Cat.
DROUGHT:
Even tho we're getting some snow/rain/mix tonight and tomorrow, everything is VERY dry. Please be very careful with your fires or any flammable materials.
RESCUE:
I find this "rescue" to be completely stupid. What do you think?
Selected Ice Conditions effective December 6, 2025
COLD COLD COLD...and more on the way! 11 degrees Saturday morning at 9am! It's absolutely feeling like winter at last. The recent storm dropped about 8-9" of light stuff up here in the Valley. Fortunately it wasn't that difficult to snowplow and shovel thank goodness. I had to drive over to Portland Wednesday at 6am and quite surprisingly the roads were reasonably clear. Even in Maine! There was a lot more to our south and that it was heavy and wet. I am really quite optimistic about the upcoming ice season, so stay tuned folks.
Huntington Ravine
good stuff
Repentance
OUT
Standard Route
OUT
Dracula
OUT
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SOME LOCAL/NATIONAL PANDEMIC THOUGHTS:
I am completely aghast that our Governor is not going to renew the Mask Mandate in New Hampshire! The Numbers have been rising in the state over the past month and this is NOT the time to let off the work we have been doing. Sununu has been getting a lot of pressure from other Republicans in the state legislature to fully open back up and do away with any mandates. In fact they have been threatening to impeach him and take away his emergency authorizations! In addition he is going to run for senator against Democrat Maggie Hassan. I can only hope that businesses in the state will continue to require masks, as they are allowed to do. If you visit in the Valley, please wear a mask to protect yourself and others. It's the right thing to do IMO. We do not want to have to return to a shut down. Hell, I just want to get back to playing music again.
I find JHU's Daily COVID-19 Data in Motion report to be very informative. It shares critical data on COVID-19 from the last 24 hours in a short 1 minute animated video format.
WEAR A MASK, SANITIZE AND STAY PHYSICALLY DISTANT FRIENDS!
REMEMBER - WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER
VALLEY CYCLING:
Up to this point the trails have been really quite good, other than some trees down. I rode the east side Sticks & Stones, Pillar To Pond, Spring, Old Sidehill, Sidehill, EKG and The Knot recently and they were generally pretty good. There was some mud near the bridges on P2P and a pretty muddy spot on Spring. The west side trails are generally good as well. Marshall is overall good except for the back side of Lucille's. The Electric Loop was surprisingly good, with mud only on the places it usually is. There were a lot of trees down on the Ultimate Single Track, and until they are all removed I don't think it's worth riding and I just saw a picture of a large tree down on the High School Trail. If we get as much heavy wet snow as predicted there will be more trees down, not to mention a lot more mud. So be prepared to haul out the road bike again.
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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