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Hanging Gardens
/in Blog/by Bayard RussellIts like the North End of Cathedral, but tilted up side down. They are both on the far right, in shady little, protected nooks that you have to walk right past on your way down from most routes at the crag. As a guide who spends a lot of his winter days cragging on the […]
It’s all Coming Back Around, Sort of…
/in Blog, Conditions/by Bayard RussellNot quite sure how, but all the ice I’ve seen over the past week up in Crawford Notch has come back around. All the usual stuff is good to go at Frankenstein, including most of the sunny and high water volume routes routes in the amphitheater that got really hammered over the New Year (with […]
Use Your Beater Crampons This Week
/in Blog, Conditions/by Bayard RussellI hope somebody out there has been climbing. Between Christmas traveling and some great friends’ wedding, Janet Bergman’s and Freddie Wilkinson’s, I’m feeling like a slob and I’m wishing for snow. It’s a little grim in the NH mountains right now, I’d post a picture but my camera got wrecked at Freddie’s bachelor party. The […]