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MOUNTAIN
GUIDES ALLIANCE INC.
603-356-5310
Ice
Report
February
28 - March 7, 2007
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A.J.Jones
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lan Turnbull
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Kurt Winkler
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603-520-6077
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603-466-3949
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207-935-3853
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Day-time temperatures are getting above freezing in
the Notches thru mid-week and highs in North Conway should reach into
the 40's thru Thursday. Predicted clouds may preserve some marginal
climbs like Goofers on Cathedral and Bob's Delight at Frankenstein, but
watch out for falling ice while walking along local cliff bases. Don't
forget to move your clocks ahead on Saturday night – the government has
changed Daylight Savings Time to the second Sunday in March as an energy
saving measure. This year the clocks spring ahead three weeks earlier!
It won't make Alpine starts any easier...
Conditions:
Franconia Notch:
The Black Dike is good, bring rock and ice gear.
Kancamagus Highway: Champney
Falls is good.
Cathedral Ledge: North End steep variations
are hook fests. Slab is o.k.
Goofer's s Direct has a thin, runout start. Watch warm days through
Thurs.
Crawford Notch: : The s.w. facing Texaco Slabs are currently
in, Amphitheater is good.
Arethusa Falls: Good. Watch for
holes in the center and at the base.
Frankenstein: Pegasus, Hobbit Couloir, Chia, Cave Route, Bob's
Delight (in, watch daily), The Trestle Cut Climbs
(pecked), The Forest climbs, Mean Miss Treater, Waterfall (thin
top-out), Standard, Penguin, Dracula, House of Blue and Practice
Slab North are in. Still lots of ice to climb.
Mt Webster:
Shoestring and all the other gullies are in - Landslide has a harder
curtain than rated. These are long climbs, bring rock and ice gear,
headlamps.The
descent from Shoestring down the Webster Cliff trail is packed.
Willey's Slide: Good.
Top of the Notch: Elephants Head Gully is o.k. The
Silver and Flume Cascades have
short ice walls and long snow climbing sections.
Mt. Willard: Hitchcock Gully (mixed), Upper East Slabs are good.
Packed approach.
Mt. Washington:
Huntington Ravine has good ice climbing. Check avalanche report.
The Lions Head Winter Trail is open; The Sherburne
has good snow.
The Harvard cabin is open. Sign up at AMC Pinkham Notch Camp.
Check the latest avalanche updates at the A.M.C. Pinkham Notch Camp
or call the Forest Service 24 hr. avalanche hotline: 603-466-2713
(ext. 4) or log onto:
http://www.mountwashington.org/weather/avalanche/
Lake Willoughby: Float Like a Butterfly, Twenty Below Zero Gully, Crazy Diamond and
The Tablets are currently in, other climbs worth checking out. The Glass
Menagerie has a good looking ice piller. Watch out for sun on Monday.Click here for last week's
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