A Smugglers Notch Weekend

Here are some photos from a great weekend with the Vermont crew up at the Smuggs Ice Bash. It was a great reunion for me with some good friends I don’t often see these days. CMG guide Matt McCormick and I got out for an attempt on a cool looking new line on the Quartz Crack Face in Smuggler’s Notch, but on closer inspection a 20′ long death block shut down the operation. Instead we traversed off onto a solid consolation prize of topping out Post Nasal Drip – a route he and Peter Doucette put up a few years ago.

Dominatrix was in fine shape and the was the objective for Sunday.

Thanks to Steve and Andrea Charest for a great event, and a special thanks to Tim Farr who seems to really run the show! Good to see everyone up there!

Bayard Russell

Madison NH

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Matt McCormick getting into the crux of Dominatrix. What an amazing line!

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Sneaking up on it..

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Matt following the last pitch of he and Peter Doucette’s route Post Nasal Drip.

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Traversing into to Post Nasal from the left after a deciding to we wanted to live. Tim Farr in the background.

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Sweet New England! Good old scrapping around on Triscam.