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YES, I've said this many times over the past few weeks - IT'S DRY!!! I looked at the Saco when I was in Crawford Notch today and it was pretty nuts. No way someone was going to be able to kayak the upper Saco, at least down to Bartlett. The stream running alongside Jefferson Notch Rd was as low as I've ever seen it, and both of the cascades in the Notch were bone dry!
PS I will be back doing the winter Ice Report again this year. I think it's my 25th year and I'm looking forward to it. Stay tuned folks...
Ice Conditions Report:
Selected Ice Conditions effective December 19, 2025
Friday December 19 at 3:40 - it's 52 degrees and raining1 Almost all of the snow is already off my roof. It's supposed to go below freezing overnight, but get back above 32 during Saturday. You may want to seriously consider giving things a few days to recover. Just sayin...
Huntington Ravine
OK
Repentance
OUT
Standard Route
IN
Dracula
IN, mostly
For the full current conditions report, CLICK
HERE
MUSICAL NOTES
Friday I'll be playing at Big Day Brewing in Gorham with the Jim McLaughlin Group. It will be great fun. Not sure if we'll be inside or out. If we're outside it will likely be one of the last times this season.
VALLEY CYCLING:
All the trails are in excellent shape now, tho quite dusty. I rode Jefferson Notch Road and a few other things today and when cars went by me it was pretty annoying. Otherwise it was good fun.
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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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