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 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
Saturday, January 12, 2013
For Overall Results Click link below
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.
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
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.
Read more here… Video by Wiktor Skupinski / Latitude Films Source: Black Diamond Equipment / Vimeo
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.
“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.”
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