Wrecking Ball on Wed. Oct. 8th. The weather got really warm, and the ice was melting pretty heavily, but people were climbing! Hopefully this new chillier weather will fatten things back up.

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Wrecking Ball on Wed. Oct. 8th. The weather got really warm, and the ice was melting pretty heavily, but people were climbing! Hopefully this new chillier weather will fatten things back up.

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Flying Buttress, right chimney and Ships Prow in winter conditions on 5/9/2010.

Long's, 10/14/14.

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Ryan Vachon

Oct 10, 2014

“Wrecking Ball on Wed. Oct. 8th. The weather got really warm, and the ice was melting pretty heavily, but people were climbing! Hopefully this new chillier weather will fatten things back up.”

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