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AAC Grant Deadline 1/1/11
AAC Grant Deadlines Fast Approaching The American Alpine Club awards more than $50,000 every year for projects ranging from worldwide exploration to local conservation. The application deadline for two of the AAC’s more prominent grants, the Lyman Spitzer Cutting Edge Award and McNeill-Nott Award, is January 1, 2011. Deadlines for other AAC grants are quickly […]
December 7, 2010
Winter! Here it comes… After the last thaw, most of the good climbing has been up high. That is about to change. After torrential rains last week the cold is back with a vengeance. A temperature of -4 is forecast for Lake Willoughby VT Thursday night. Look for perfect ice making conditions over the next […]
It's Back!
The Ice has Returned to the usual Early Season Locations After a week + of warm weather, which took it’s toll on what little ice we had, the cold temps have returned! Climbable ice was found in the Adirondacks & Northern New Hampshire over the weekend.
Right on Schedule!
The Black Dike Cannon Cliff, Franconia Notch NH November 3, 2010 It looks like the 2010-2011 ice season is right on schedule! “Great conditions were found on the right exit today. Plenty of ice up there. The sun was cooking Fafnir and Quartet, which both have some ice on them.” – Ryan Stefiuk – Big Foot […]
YES!
Let the “Games” begin! Damnation Gully – Huntington Ravine, Mt Washington NH Sunday October 10, 2010 While others were climbing warm rock at Rumney, or having their Sunday coffee, Alfonzo, the alpine junkie was in his element climbing some early season ice. We found more ice than expected, and it was well bonded, but […]
The Evolution Traverse
by Alan Cattabriga For almost two years this climb has been occupying space in my head, this Evolution Traverse and for that same amount of time, almost everything I’ve done in the mountains of the northeast has been geared to helping me with this line. I hate to call it a project, for I don’t […]
Alaska Range 2010
Trip Report by Pcooke The GPS on the DeHaviland Otter we’re flying is showing “Danger – Terrain Ahead” in white letters on a red background. It’s the type of message that usually serves as a precursor to slamming into the ground in a fiery explosion. And indeed, as we fly over the Pika glacier there’s […]
Erik Weihenmayer Climbs Moose's Tooth
On The Moose’s Tooth By Ian Osteyee, Adirondack Mountain Guides. At the time Erik Weihenmayer had floated the idea of going to Alaska’s Ruth Glacier to climb the routes “Ham and Eggs” and “Shaken not Stirred” on the Moose’s Tooth, we had just barely finished climbing “.5 Gully” on Ben Nevis in Scotland. We still […]
NEIce Season Round-up
NEIce 2009-2010 Round-up NEIce opened the season with a new website as it reached the 10-year anniversary milestone, a fact which stands as a tribute to the region’s wonderful ice climbing community. Temperatures this weekend hit an unusual mark for April reaching above 80 degrees Fahrenheit in New England. While there are still pockets of solid ice to be found on Mt. Washington, we take […]
Photo of the Week 3/10/2010
Medusa Climbing the wild ice on ‘Medusa’, Wi4, on the Gaspe’ Peninsula, Canada. (Photo by MtnRkr) Lots of NEIce members were out there getting after it this past week. Travelling to the Gaspe’, Canadian Rockies, and also nearer to home on Mt. Webster in N.H. Alfonzo gives a great Trip Report of a posse of NEicer’s sending […]
