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February 2, 2023
Hi Folks,
I once again have to put the weather on the top of the list for what's happening this week. We've had an amazingly balmy winter so far, but this weekend that's going to drastically change, at least for a few daze. I can't really explain it any better than what the Obs folks have to say, so either jump to their site or scroll down here for the Valley predictions.
I haven't been climbing all that much, just a bit on my own, but I did get out on Tuesday. My long time friend Tom Callaghan wanted to show off a couple of "new" routes he has done over at Cathedral. I put the word new in quotes mainly 'cause everybody thinks it's all been done. And for the most part it has. But there are some things that come in based on interesting weather and in odd places. These 2 fit that bill. The first one we did is on The Nostril Block, a giant boulder that's in the woods pretty much directly below The Mordor. A general description is on page 264 of the latest Handren guide. The route we did is called "The Shnoz" and while he calls it Grade 4/M7, I think it's every bit of that. The gear is "adequate" tho there is a great place for a purple Camelot in the corner near the top. Unfortunately the top out is on unconsolidated snow over rock, which makes it much more dicey than it should be.
http://www.neclimbs.com/wmr_pix/20230202/Callaghan_1.jpg
http://www.neclimbs.com/wmr_pix/20230202/Callaghan_3.jpg
The second climb is really a smear of ice located right of the start to Fun House and pretty much directly below the block. It's 2 short pitches. I led the first pitch which was pretty thin and delaminated. Fortunately there is a pin about 10' up on the left and another on the right 12' up. I couldn't find #2 but got in a decent stubbie in an icicle on the right. You belay at a large tree, but again there is mostly snow over rock getting there. We didn't do P 2 because it was even more delaminated and the crack was full of ice! Oh well...another time. What I did was pretty fun.
http://www.neclimbs.com/wmr_pix/20230202/Callaghan_4.jpg
http://www.neclimbs.com/wmr_pix/20230202/Callaghan_5.jpg
http://www.neclimbs.com/wmr_pix/20230202/Callaghan_6.jpg
http://www.neclimbs.com/wmr_pix/20230202/Callaghan_7.jpg
http://www.neclimbs.com/wmr_pix/20230202/Callaghan_9.jpg
http://www.neclimbs.com/wmr_pix/20230202/CathedralLedge.jpg
http://www.neclimbs.com/wmr_pix/20230202/Repentance_Remission.jpg
http://www.neclimbs.com/wmr_pix/20230202/Diagonal.jpg
http://www.neclimbs.com/wmr_pix/20230202/chia.jpg
http://www.neclimbs.com/wmr_pix/20230202/Frankenstein_Right.jpg
http://www.neclimbs.com/wmr_pix/20230202/standardRoute.jpg
http://www.neclimbs.com/wmr_pix/20230202/dracula.jpg
http://www.neclimbs.com/wmr_pix/20230202/cinema.jpg
http://www.neclimbs.com/wmr_pix/20230202/MtWillard.jpg
http://www.neclimbs.com/wmr_pix/20230202/Gully-1.jpg
http://www.neclimbs.com/wmr_pix/20230202/LHMonkeyWrench.jpg
http://www.neclimbs.com/wmr_pix/20230202/MtWillard_UpperTier.jpg
http://www.neclimbs.com/wmr_pix/20230202/MtWillard_YellowSlab.jpg
http://www.neclimbs.com/wmr_pix/20230202/shoestring.jpg
No real time to put much together right now so I'll let this week's numbers speak for themselves...
New Hampshire:
? deaths
1,187 active cases
19 Current hospitalizations being treated for COVID
2,932 Total deaths due to COVID-19 in NH
United States:
Confirmed: 102,347,197
Deaths: 1,108,512
Global:
Confirmed: 670,819,515
Deaths: 6,833,582
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/us-map
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/covid-19-daily-video
OUR ONLY WAY OUT IS IF YOU GET VACCINATED, WHERE RECOMMENDED PLEASE STILL WEAR A MASK, WASH YOUR HANDS!
No time to ride this week so nothing to report... Sorry
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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Remember - climb hard, ride the steep stuff, stay safe and above all BE NICE,
Al Hospers
The White Mountain Report
North Conway, New Hampshire
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