Midwest Ice Conditions-16/17 season
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Updated Munising report from a few days ago. Looks like the warm weather is making it all the way up to the Big Lake. Not worried a bit for ice fest though. It will get cold again up there by then,plus a lot of route already look to be in. |
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Any updates on Gov Dodge? Did it survive the heat wave? |
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maggtu315 wrote:Any updates on Gov Dodge? Did it survive the heat wave?Curious about ice in this area for the weekend myself |
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My guess would be that Cox hollow is melted out on both sides, and the ice on the wall right of Stephan's falls is still good enough to climb. We had warm temps, but really no sun and not too much rain in the last ~5 days. That being said, it's just a guess. |
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Thank you! |
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Stephan's Falls as of 1/28/17. |
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Hit Lone Rock yesterday. The down-river pillar is the only one still in place. There is enough there to still climb but barely. It was a white frosty snow cone mostly. Total muck and dirt fest on the top at the belay. Yuck. Not much fun. Had a very nice day though with not much wind and a bit of blue sky here and there.... spent most of the day scouting for new rock and ice route potential in a out of the way little spot in the vast driftless area and found a gem. |
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Went by Lone Rock yesterday, and ran into Burt's party after we had decided to make the drive to Wyalusing instead to make more use of our drive time from Chicago. Thought about sticking around but it would've been too crowded for the one route that was in. Glad you guys had some fun with it! |
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Any reports on the Black River? |
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Anyone Know How bad of a hit did Munsing took last week's warm up? It looks like colder temps are in the forecast up until the 15th. And Yes, I have been checking the conditions reports with Down Wind Sports. |
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I heard not awesome for some of the pillars, but the seeping style routes (like the Curtains, HMR, Fallen Feather) held up. I don't have any route names that are actually "in" or not for you though. sorry. |
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Its my first year going and to be honest I'm debating on canceling my reservations. I want to avoid big crowds and incompetent people. (why am I going again..) Is it worth it? |
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I have been going for ~15 years or so to the Fest and have learned a few things about the weekend there. You still can find ice to climb over the weekend not with a large crowd, but a longer approach is necessary than either the weekend before or after. If you try and climb anything with in an hour or an hour and a half from the car, you will be making new friends. |
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^ Wonder if that will actually touch down with this warm-up. |
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jon jugenheimer wrote:Any reports on the Black River?The East side had a couple fun routes in 2-weekends ago. Chandelier was down but looked damaged from the warmth and rain. Amazingly the seepage spots upstream and on the same side from chandelier were fat and in great shape. The river was a bit too sketchy for us to cross so we climbed the east side. We did not look at (can't remember the name) the column downstream from chandelier. Cheers |
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Thanks Rodger. I heard from another friend the other day the river wasn't crossable. Just not cold enough this winter. So lame. |
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Your friend might have been the one who went out 1/4 of the way and turned back earlier in the day. We saw those tracks along with the fractured shore ice that settled down about 8" on the other side. At ABR the day before an older ski instructor/former water rescue diver, put the likelihood of "seeing Jesus face to face" if I popped thru the ice on that river with snowshoes on! |
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jon jugenheimer wrote:From a friends Facebook page. The wildcat has slowly been reforming since the warm up.!!Well that pic is sucko depressing! Not much chance of that making it to connect or freeze up very soon AND get the OK to climb when needed. I'm afraid our ice 'season' is done here at SRSP...And it lasted for what....about 36 hours of legal climbing before closure of good ice. Late start and early closure problems once again here is a set back to a decade ago and more. Crap weather is another issue of its own. 12 hr. drives up north are the only answer I guess. |
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Anyone have any thoughts on ice conditions at Governor Dodge this weekend? Traveling from Southern IN. |