Logan Bread
Looking for an alternative to energy/food bars? Logan bread could be the answer.
Panther Gorge – The Guide Book
If you want to explore the remote Panther Gorge in the Adirondacks and get away from the crowds, this is a must-have guide. Kevin has been obsessed with this area over the last few years and has put his knowledge into a very comprehensive guide.
Panther Gorge
By Kevin “MudRat” MacKenzie
“Panther Gorge captures the adventure inherent to one of the most remote, enigmatic regions of the Adirondack High Peaks.
Two thousand feet deep and lined with sheer cliffs, the rugged chasm sits between Marcy and Haystack, New York’s first and third highest mountains. In between the jaws of the peaks sits an intriguing set of natural curiosities: spires, talus mazes, glacial erratics, ponds, rills, and forest.”
You can get it here.. https://www.adirondackmountaineering.com/panthergorgebook
“Panther Gorge is one of our great unexplored frontiers, shrouded by myth and impenetrable krummholz. Kevin has done an outstanding job chronicling this remote wilderness, not only with exhaustive research but with extensive, first-hand accounts and photography. The sheer number of climbing successes revealed in these pages leaves one slack-jawed. Panther Gorge is a culmination of Kevin’s climbing skill and tireless thirst for discovery”
– Jim Lawyer / Guidebook Author of Adirondack Rock
Source: adirondackmountaineering.com
Festiglace Friday #4
The best way to eat hot maple syrup as an ice climber in Quebec!
The Black Dike and Area Conditions 11-17-19
Angel Eyes did a flyby of the Black Dike area on Cannon Cliff Sunday 11-17-19
Festiglace Friday #3
Competitors compete for the greatest climber award – Festiglace, Pont-Rouge Quebec.
Festiglace Friday #2
Massachusetts WI 6+
Pont-Rouge, Quebec
Gilles Girard on the first ascent of Massachusetts WI6+ Pont-Rouge Quebec – Photo: Doug Millen
This is where it all started for me. While my wife went shopping in Quebec city, I was out in search of this Pont-Rough with its spectacular ice columns. Driving around I finally found climbers getting ready at the side of the road. They invited me to climb with them. Through a snow-covered field and then down a steep tree-filled hill with ropes to hand over hand down to the river. The gorge opened up and I was amazed! Never had I seen such ice. I spent the day climbing and learning from my new friends. That day Gilles Girard and Xavier Barbarant put up a new cutting edge climb. Upon finishing the climb Gilles asked me where I was from, I said Massachusetts. That shall be the name Gilles said. I felt so honored.
The next fall I was climbing in the Adirondacks and I ran into Ben from Quebec and he said that they were having an Ice festival in Pont-Rouge and I should come. I started to tell him about last winter in Pont-Rouge then he burst out, “you’re the guy!”. The climb was a big deal at the time.
That winter I went to the first Festiglace and that started my 10-year addiction to this fantastic Ice Festival.
Doug Millen
Festiglace Pont-Rouge 2020
Web site – http://www.festiglace.org
Festiglace 2020
The Return of FESTIGLACE
Feb. 21-23, 2020
After an absence of over a decade, Festiglace is back and ready to stoak the ice climbing fever again in Pont-Rouge, Quebec. Thanks to the team of passionate volunteers that have brought this event back for everyone to enjoy.
Festiglace was my favorite ice climbing festival in the Northeast and I am so glad it is back. Held in the spectacular setting of the Jacques-Cartier River where grade 5 & 6 ice climbs are a dime a dozen, it is a dream location for an ice climbing event.
Stay tuned to NEice throughout the season for more information on Festiglace 2020
Full Press Release here… Festiglace 2020
Web site – http://www.festiglace.org
Festiglace Friday
Every Friday till Festiglace 2020 I will be posting photos from my archives. I attended all 10 of the previous festivals and have many great photos to share. I will start off with this spectacular photo of Abby Watkins competing during Festiglace 2001. The harder the climb, the more points you receive. It was a cold day and the ice was hard and dry. Not an easy climb, but worth big points. This climb was first climbed the day before by Rich Marshall. It goes up and left. He rated it WI7.
Abby Watkins competing at Festiglace 2001. Note the leashes on the tools. – Photo Doug Millen
Abby sporting some stylish gaiters during the event
Doug Millen
Mount Washingtion Valley Ice Fest 2019
The 26th Mount Washington Valley Ice Fest. The biggest Ice Climbing Festival in the Northeast! Is this Weekend!!!
Climber Profile: Shawn Bunnell
In the past two seasons, Bunnell has been quietly ticking off some of the region’s hard traditional classics and has been on a tear recently.
North East Ice
Your ice climbing connection for New England, the Northeast and Beyond!