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MORE RAIN? Can you believe it? I almost can't
believe it myself. Wednesday's rain event dropped almost 3 1/4
inches of rain here in North Conway. This month alone we've already
had well over 6 inches. While not a record, it's pretty darn close.
I haven't seen anything like it in the 6 years I've been up here.
The south side of West Side Road was closed for several hours this
morning due to the Saco flooding, and the north side at the First
Bridge near town was even closed for a while.
I was up at Lake Willoughby on Tuesday. We couldn't have picked
a better day to climb: no wind, temps just at freezing, and totally
bluebird skies. All in all a super day. Amazingly enough we were
the only people at the cliff the entire day. We decided to do 20
Below Zero and had to pound through knee and waist deep snow to
get up to the climb. Well at least it got us warmed up! <grin> We
got a late start so it was running water over Dave on first pitch.
He belayed a little to the right, and it turned out to be in a
waterfall. I took the second pitch and definitely got rained on
as well. Still it was a near-perfect day. Afterward we plowed across
to the Tablets. They were in fat and even Crazy Diamond was in
good shape! A ride up the road showed that the bottom of the Gentleman
and Promenade were thin. Overall there is plenty of ice to be found
up there and I would say that this last rain hasn't killed it off
all that much.
Selected Ice Conditions effective November 27, 2025
There is minimal snow up in Crawford Notch. The pictures below are from Wednesday. While I drove through the notch today, I didn't bring a camera. However there is substantially less ice up there than there was yesterday. Mid day Wednesday it was 46 degrees at the Dry River Campground and 41 at the Highland Center. It rained a bit overnight as well. Today it was 40 at the Center! I have seen some great pictures of Pinnacle Gully from earlier in the week, but none from yesterday or today. That said, things will most certainly get better as the weekend goes on.
Huntington Ravine
UNKNOWN
Repentance
OUT
Standard Route
OUT
Dracula
OUT
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Remember - climb hard, ride the steep stuff, stay safe and above all BE NICE,
Al Hospers
The White Mountain Report
North Conway, New Hampshire
Why climb? For the natural experience; for the danger that draws us ever on; for the feeling of total freedom; for the monstrous drop beneath you. It is like a drug.
Climbing is a very dangerous sport. You can get hurt or even kill yourself. When you go climbing, you do so of your own free will. Everything on this site is to be taken with a grain of salt. Don't blame us if you get up some totally heinous route, in over your head and fall and hurt yourself.
