Ice climbing season is already upon us!

First ascent of the Black Dike for this season was today:

neice.com/ice-climbing-cond…

I thought I read somewhere that Peters wife climbed it last week

I didn't know that - if so, badass! Just passing along the article which said "This is believed to be the first ascent of the season." This week or last it's still here... let's all hope it's better than last year.

jon jugenheimer wrote:I thought I read somewhere that Peters wife climbed it last week

She and Alexa opened the season last year, I think around the 19th or 20th.

the fact that it was early last year highlights how these early season cold snaps don't really mean much in the big picture of what our winter will be like.....

Nick Goldsmith wrote: the fact that it was early last year highlights how these early season cold snaps don't really mean much in the big picture of what our winter will be like.....

New Hamsphire was crazy! One week slush and hero ice with mud top outs, the next everything's frozen solid and it's 10 degrees. The rock solid approaches with no snow coverage were the most dangerous part of the day.

The NE ice season was good. You just had go a little further west.

Bill Kirby wrote: ....The NE ice season was good. You just had go a little further west.

Like Colorado?

BigB wrote: Like Colorado?

Haha.. CO's not in the Northeast.

You mean to tell me that there's states east of the Rockies ....get tha fugouttahere ;)

I'm spreading the news, I'm leaving today...

Black Dike looking gnarly and thin!!!

About time. Ice seasons practically a quarter of the way over by now...;)

Looked FAT!

Ice season was good last year but short. the winter in general completly sucked . What I meant by my earlier post is that early season cold snaps do not seem to be a reliable indicator of what the winter will be like.

Those pictures are RAD!