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Getting ready for the comp.
Almost ready to go! Petra Cliffs indoor climbing comp Smuggs Ice Bash 2013
Gone North – The Documentary
A middle-aged woman, climbing ice solo, in the middle of nowhere… WHAT?!
Gone North is a documentary about just such an occurrence, and a lot more. Why would a nice city girl from good family want to freeze her backside sleeping in a tent, without a shower, eating ramen noodles for 5 weeks? What is so compelling about remote wilderness? Why do we seek solitude? Why does climbing ice make more sense than climbing career ladders? I don’t quite know the answers to these questions, but I will film my journey as I try to make sense of some of them in the Arctic Norway.
SMUGGS ICE BASH – 2013
January 25-27, 2013 The ice is coming back with a vengeance! With very cold weather building ice all week it should be a great weekend in the Notch! Look for NEice at the the parking lot at the entrance to the Notch for some hot soup and a look at the NEice helicopters! Lets hope the flying […]
The Balance of Life and Gravity
Ski mountaineering is dangerous. I have a wife and daughter. Almost any big adventure in Grand Teton National Park takes me a full day (I’m slow). That’s a day I don’t spend with my daughter, and it’s a day when my wife doesn’t get a break from childcare until late afternoon at the earliest. And that’s selfish, on a number of levels.
Selfishness aside, I’m clear about one thing: I’m addicted to the mountains.
CryoKinesis
. The First Ascent of Cryokinesis ay Rice’s airborne antics folded him nearly in half and brought him to a halt not so far above Cathedral Ledge’s Blueberry Terrace in January 2010. “Walking”, or “climbing it off”, as was the case, Ray leaned into a no hands rest 30+ feet below his highpoint. He collected […]
2013 Ouray Ice Festival Elite Mixed Climbing Comp – Final Results
2013 Ouray Ice Festival Elite Mixed Climbing Comp
Saturday, January 12, 2013
For Overall Results Click link below
NEice Ambassador Bayard Russell has a new partner!
CATHEDRAL MOUNTAIN GUIDES is a New Hampshire-based guide service founded in 2008 by American Mountain Guide Association certified guide Bayard Russell, Jr. and now run in partnership with local guide, accomplished alpinist and Piolet d’Or Recipient, Freddie Wilkinson.
Cathedral Mountain Guides seeks to provide safe, high-quality private technical climbing experiences in the White Mountains and Northeast region. The safety and wellbeing of both clients and guides is our first priority, every day we operate.
Elliot and Michael's Excellent Adventure
My buddy Bayard was talking about how difficult it is to get out with good friends sometimes. Elliot Gaddy is a busy guy. I feel like I’ve done a good amount of drinking with Elliot this fall, and a lot of planning for upcoming trips, but I’ve only gone ice climbing with the lad once: a failed attempt on Cannon, over before it began. We have been talking about doing a big day to train for Alaska for a little while. Cannon? Out of nick.
Cathedral, however, was in good shape, fifteen minutes away from our homes. While it doesn’t have the horrifying approach, objective hazard, loose rock, and high failure rate of Cannon, it does have solid gear, good ice, and sunny, short approaches. I guess it’s good to spoil oneself every now and then. – Michael Wejchert
Wolverine (WI11) at Helmcken Fall, Canada
There’s steep ice and then there is STEEP ice. Tucked away in Wells Grey Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada, Helmcken Falls offers the wildest, steepest and most difficult ice climbing in the world (some climbs are nearly as overhanging as they are long). Filmer Wiktor Skupinski was on the scene last year and captured the following video of BD athletes Will Gadd, Raphael Slawinski, Klemen Premrl and Tim Emmett all working on a new route, which Premrl and Emmett eventually made the first and second ascents of back-to-back.
