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Wolverine – The first WI 11 in ice climbing
Read more here… Video by Wiktor Skupinski / Latitude Films Source: Black Diamond Equipment / Vimeo
Annual Agawa Canyon – Ice Climbers Festival 2013
The Agawa Canyon festival and reunion is a winter camping experience.
Access is by train only. You can join us for a part of the festival…. See train schedule for days
North/South and times.
Tickets can be pre-purchased www.algomacentralrailway.com
Reservation number is 1-800-242-9287
Purchase train tickets at (129 Bay Street, Downtown Sault Ste. Marie at Station Mall)
Tell them that you’re heading to Mile 112 (roundtrip) Approx: $138.00
All attendees need to be self sufficient and bring their own camping equipment, clothes and food.
– A heated/lighted prospector’s tent will be available for those that need to dry out VERY wet clothes
and gear during the evening. There is plenty of camping sites in the main base camp.
– Clinics are open to all ice climbers. Cost of clinics is by donation.
Vertical Therapy: Pleasure and Pain – Taking the Sharp End
“Chris has led a vertical, candled amalgamation of slushy pillars. I can’t find my feet, I’m just hanging on. Even with a rope above me I’m terrified. My arms burn in a way I’ve forgotten they can. Panic clouds my mind. I can get my dual-points on my right foot to stick, but Chris’s mono-point on my left just wont. I can’t remember the last time I fell on an ice climb… never on lead, and maybe not even on TR. I’m afraid of failure and what it means.”
Diagonal – Erik Eisele and Scott Bubnis
A time-lapse video of Diagonal, Cathedral Ledge NH Jan. 5, 2013 Video by Dustin Marshall Photography Sources: Youtube / shadesofgranite.blogspot.com / Erik Eisele
Find Your Feet – Taking the Sharp End
“Steep terrain is intimidating. It’s physically draining, but fighting the pump is usually as simple as being mindful of where you put your feet.”
How NEice.com ranks
NEice continues to be one of the top players for climbing web sites. Below are the rankings of some popular climbing web sites. Now remember smaller is better. I left out the big guns, climbing, Rock and Ice, exct. as they are in a different league. But this will give you a feel of where we stand […]
Embracing the Cold – Pat Cooke
Truth be told, even I don’t like being cold. You’d think that, as an ice climber, I’d love the cold. And I do, to a point, but there’s very little more miserable than standing below an ice climb belaying your partner while you’re anchored in one place, completely exposed to snow and wind. You can wear all the clothes you own, but you’ll never feel warm. The only way to warm up is to move, and you can’t. You’re going to suffer… you just have to embrace the cold. – Pat Cooke
A Season Within a Season
Article by Courtney Ley It is when one season weakens and surrenders to the growing strength of another that we can most clearly see the movement of time changing space. The leaves brown, crumble and fall at our feet. The water slowly comes to a halt and freezes. It is quiet and I’m alone. As […]
What is a Climber? – Erik Eisele
There is a thread on NEIce.com right now asking how many climbers people think there are. In that question there is an inherent assumption about what it means to be a climber, and in the first few responses the discussion takes a hard left turn into who is really a climber. The back and forth got me thinking.
Am I a climber? I moved to North Conway a decade ago with no job, no clue how I was going to survive. I had led a handful of 5.9 rock climbs, but none of the classics on Cathedral. Grade 4 ice was within grasp, but I didn’t have a clue how to survive steep ice or mixed climb. I didn’t know how to aid climb, haul, bivy, belay off the anchor, belay a leader with a Grigri, sport climb, handjam, place a pin or do half the things I now take for granted.
