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NEice Stickers
We have a new batch of NEice stickers. If you would like one, send a stamped self addressed envelope to the address below. Doug Millen NEice.com 48 Woodward Ave. Gloucester MA 01930
Spring Fund Drive
Well the ice is waning and so are the funds that keep NEice going. Remember, the server fees continue even during the summer when visitors and advertisers are gone. And if you have sold something in the classified section, make a donation, if you can. This service is provided to NEice members free of charge. […]
Photo of the Week – 3/3/10
Another photo of White Fang: Mike R. checking out the start. Not for everyone. Looking up the fang.Looks steep! -Nearing the end of the season is a bittersweet time as we get psyched for all the hard climbing being done when fitness levels reach a peak for many climbers just as the ice starts to bake in the […]
Bivouac Blog – 3/1/10
In 25 seconds…….the 2010 Ice Fest! by Anne Skidmore “Well, as though things aren’t busy enough for a full time photographer, I make myself even busier with an event I love. In my spare time (haha, laugh now) I also help put together an Ice Climbing Festival here in North Conway. It is 3 days […]
Photo of the Week 2/25/10
News & Information Hydropower M9 WI5- Erik Weihenmayer Climbs Ben Nevis Home Made Tools Hydrophobia at “The Lake” Mahoosic Notch, Maine – eguide –
Hydropower M9 WI5-
Possibly the hardest mixed route in the Catskills FA Matt McCormick 2/22/10 “On my first attempt of the day on the new route I made it all the way to the ice before elbowing my ice tool out of a hook while clipping! AAAHHHH! I couldn’t believe it. I had the route in the […]
Mahoosic Notch, Maine
Off the Beaten Trail by James Paradis Over the past several years, Dan Cousins, Dave Custer, Jim Paradis, and Susan Ruff have extensively explored the ice climbing in Mahoosic Notch on the Appalachian Trail at the border of New Hampshire and Maine and climbed some 40 pitches of ice there. We find the ambiance in […]
Erik Weihenmayer Climbs Ben Nevis
by Ian Osteyee Adirondack Mountain Guides Blind Climber Erik Weihenmayer had a couple of talks to give in London, so he decided that it was a good time to visit Scotland and climb the legendary Ben Nevis. The blind climber may have summited Everest, but that seems only to have wet his appetite for climbing […]
Home Made Tools
Rolando, a Romanian artist living in New Paltz, Ny has put his sculpting skills to work. The tools are modeled after the popular Nomic and made from hickory and old lawn mowing blades. This is the 2nd generation. They look incredible. I wonder how well they climb? Nice work Rolando. Source: Nancy Savickas
Hydrophobia at “The Lake”
Aurora Direct Lake Willoughby VT “Larry and I rapped back to the ledge and Matt had just started the next rap when all hell broke loose! Tons and Tons of water cut loose at very high pressure over the big wall for about ten minutes. It was just ten feet to our right. I cant […]
