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Smuggler's Notch Conditions April?

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Chezky Steiner · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Feb 2022 · Points: 16

Anybody familiar with smugglers notch know what the conditions are typically like in the first half of April? What are the chances anything will be in?

Ira OMC · · Hardwick, VT · Joined Sep 2013 · Points: 273

Chances are slim that there will be any April ice . 

Nick Goldsmith · · Pomfret VT · Joined Aug 2009 · Points: 440

Apparently April starts this week.

dave custer · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Nov 2010 · Points: 2,411

Hidden Gully can be nice in early April; low angle, shady climbs can hang on for a long time. But as Nick notes, it looks a lot like April later this week; if low temps are going to be 39 F, there won't be much left in 6 weeks...

Nick Goldsmith · · Pomfret VT · Joined Aug 2009 · Points: 440

hidden can be terrifying in april...   I have done it a few times late season by getting there really early and literaly running up it but when things start getting too warm in the  in the upper ampetheater bad things can happen. its an alpine world up there. you certainly don't want to come down easy gully  with warm april sun up on three sheets etc   

Tony Lombardo · · Sparta · Joined Jun 2018 · Points: 26

There will be no ice at Smuggs come April. May I suggest the Whites. 

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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