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Lower Baker Pond Ice Arena

Submitted By: bradley white on Aug 24, 2009
Administrator: Jay Knower
Elevation: 80 feet
Latitude: 43.8992  Longitude: -71.9777 
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Description 

The arena on its west side has a thick 4ft+ pillar 30ft+ reaching to the ground free standing because it hangs directly off of the schist cliff deep cave like overhang (this arena could offer some new very difficult rock climbs and extreme dry point possibilities). I top roped the pillar (WI5). To the east there is another wall of rock that has a very difficult 20ft+ chandelier lower section and a 40ft+ upper section again a free standing pillar ice flow. There is some WI1-2 short ice flows also here. This arena is dependent on weather conditions of the entire winter and is usually in towards the end of the season in February.


Getting There 

Traveling west on 25A a few miles from Wentworth, there is the Lower Baker Pond visibly south of the road. The ice climbing arena is above this pond on the north side of 25A, almost past the pond. Parking is on the south side of 25A at plowed pull out. Walking to the climbs is less than a 1/8 of a mile.


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Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Lower Baker Pond Ice Arena:
Alive and Kicking   WI5     Trad, Ice, Alpine, 1 pitch, 60 feet   
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By nhclimber
From: Nottingham, NH
Aug 25, 2009

I went to summer camp on lower baker pond!