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Tuckerman Ravine Work Weekend
FRIENDS OF TUCKERMAN HELP REBUILD THE TRAILS Saturday 10/22 and Sunday 10/23 The Tuckerman Ravine region was hit particularly hard during Irene. Due to all the hurricane damage this season, Friends of Tuckerman Ravine (FOTR) and the White Mountain National Forest reached out for help, and NEice and many others were there to lend a […]
Freddie Wilkinson Interview
Some of the world’s best alpinists seem to come from the Northeast – especially New Hampshire. If you’ve hung out at the Mt. Washington Ice Festival, you know there’s a great bunch of climbers there. More importantly, you’ll find a camaraderie among them that encompasses anyone who puts on a pair of rock shoes or […]
The First Ice
Huntington Ravine, Mt. Washington NH Thursday October 6, 2011 4:30am start to beat the sun. The first ice we have seen this season. Mr. Alfonzo testing the ice, “she no go”.
Proposed Bozeman Ice Tower
World Class Climbing Arena Coming to Bozeman By Doug Millen, NEice.com A team of Montana State University students has won a local competition to design an 85-foot ice climbing tower as part of an attempt to lure the world cup of ice climbing to Bozeman. The design of the project was initiated by a student […]
Local Climbers Ascend World's 2nd-Highest Unclimbed Peak
Saser Kangri II 7,513 meters (24,649 feet) Mark Richey, Steve Swenson, and Freddie Wilkinson have climbed the east peak of Saser Kangri II in the Eastern Karakoram mountains of India’s Kashmir region. This was believed to be the second-highest unclimbed peak in the world. Details of the climb are not available yet. More at: Climbing.com […]
The Highs and Lows of NEice
Creatures of Habit! by Doug Millen, NEice.com Have a look at this graph. Visits per day. The high points are almost always Monday, and the low points are mostly Saturday. It Makes perfect sense. Out climbing on the weekend (Saturday), at work on Monday, bored, checking out what happened and posting new stuff from the […]
Camping Trip Planner
New Smartphone App by Jimbl Android System A Camping planner pre-populated and customizable A configurable planner with everything needed for any camping trip. Comes pre-populated with more than 225 camping items. If you are a camping person, this is all you need to ensure you don’t forget anything. Check/uncheck and reuse every-time you go on […]
New Crampon from Petzl
The “Lynx“ Petzls latest High End Crampon Available SEPTEMBER 2011 $245.00 MSRP The new Lynx crampon from Petzl offers a forged and easily replaceable monopoint or dual point. The Lynx will replace the M10. A much lighter replacement and should make a lot of people happy. Modular crampon for ice and mixed climbing, with new LEVERLOCK […]
We End Where We Start
Time to go “UP!” The ice climbing season is coming to an end and the lower elevation climbs are melting away. But for the die hard ice climber, the best climbing is just beginning. The snow in the higher elevations is consolidating, the nights are cold, and the days are long and warm, Spring climbing […]
The Peach (WI5 M8)
BD athlete Raphael Slawinski makes first ascent of The Peach (WI 5 M8), a multi-pitch, bolt-free mixed line in the Canadian Rockies. by The Black Diamond Crew Black Diamond athlete Raph Slawinski has climbed ice all over the Canadian Rockies from fat ice flows to desperate mixed lines, bagging tons of first ascents along the […]
