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North Bald Cap ICE

New Hampshire > NH Ice & Mixed > - Northern NH

Description

Park five miles up Success Pond Rd from Berlin, NH.   Follow derelict logging trail for a mile to a fork and take a right and in 500 ft cross a brook and follow summer hiking trail along base of cliff though sparse oak and beech trees until a diagonal ramp presents itself (photo), and the yellow ice climb of Goldline/Yukon Gold presents itself. High up are three 60meter ice climbs that require a double rope rappel.

[NOTE: This a link is to the summer directions for the drive into the summer parking. https://www.mountainproject.com/area/111628659/north-bald-cap which may be of help if you have never been there. R Hall Admin. ]

For the slabs area, follow the normal summer path to October Sundae.

[ Note: See COMMENT, for further info. R Hall NH Admin.]

Getting There

Four miles hiking round trip in a backcountry setting 10 miles from closest town i.e. snowshoes or skis during periods of deep blown snow drifts

Verizon cellular service is available! but not to be your single mode of rescue.

Sub-areas are Left to Right as you look at the crag. 

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Kurt Winkler on P1. 27 February, 2006
[Hide Photo] Kurt Winkler on P1. 27 February, 2006
Summer photo of the Winter Ice Areas - approx approaches shown
[Hide Photo] Summer photo of the Winter Ice Areas - approx approaches shown
Seth Maciejowski on a mixed variation of Treasure Chest at the Motherlode in 2008.
[Hide Photo] Seth Maciejowski on a mixed variation of Treasure Chest at the Motherlode in 2008.
Yukon Gold
[Hide Photo] Yukon Gold

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Robert Hall
North Conway, NH
[Hide Comment] In an e-mail to me, Joe indicated that the "4 miles round trip" supposes that you're there early enough in the season to drive the 4.7 miles of the Success Pond road; which is not maintained for winter use. (His described parking is where you'd normally turn off Success Pond Rd and use high-clearance vehicle to drive another mile or so.)

The approach described: "....take the right fork,...500 ft cross a brook" seems to be the approach that initially heads for the "Lost Boyz Area", then follows along the cliff. This is the shortest approach to the "Yukon Gold" buttress, ( vs the longer approach to the October Sundae area) Jan 22, 2019
Seth Maciejowski
[Hide Comment] In November 06' I hiked Mt. Success via the Outlook and spotted tantalizing smears down the face of NBC. Thinking there was some good potential there, I returned with Alden Pellett in January to see what we would find. I knew that Success Pond Road was being plowed for logging operations at the time. We were lucky to find that they were logging all the way up to within a quarter of a mile of the base of NBC and the log landings were plowed. We were actually able to drive to within .5 miles of the base of the right side of the cliff at the time. Made for easy approaches. We did 4 or 5 routes on that trip and then came back and did a bunch more. Now that people are stoked up about NBC, maybe it's time to post them up.... Mar 18, 2019