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October 2, 2014
Hi Folks,
While I'd like to say I've been out climbing like a madman all this week, that would be a lie. [wry grin] With the Bike For Books 20 mile MTB ride on Saturday (with Joe & Judy Perez), my band playing for opening day at the Fryeburg Fair on Sunday, having to take the car to Berlin for service on Monday (which turned into a great road bike ride on Dolly Copp Rd), coupled with crappy weather on Tuesday and Wednesday, I haven't gotten out on the rock once this week. Well, other than puttering up the Ledges on Mt Cranmore this afternoon when the sun finally came out! At least used those 2 dreary days to get in some programming work that I've been putting off. Some weeks are just like that!
Monday was actually interesting 'cause when I go up to take the car, I always bring my road bike. There are lots of interesting loops to ride up in that area, most of which don't involve a lot of traffic, unlike down here in the Mount Washington Valley. This time I decided to ride up Rt 2 and on to the top of Randolph Hill. That's a really neat area, with an spectacular view of Kings Ravine. If it weren't so far from everything I do, I would love to live up there. Robert and Merriam Underhill had a place up there and actually are buried off Durand Road, off Rt 2 in Randolph. I can understand the attraction. I sotted a cabin on Randolph Hill Road with almost 2 acres of land for only $85k, but I don't think you could live in it full time. Oh well...
I stopped by the White Mountain cafe for a coffee and muffin on the way home and ran into a guy who had just ridden up from Jackson. Interestingly enough he was also a climber and reads this Report, so we had a interesting conversation about climbing and cycling. He mentioned that i don't talk all that much about the cycling I do, almost every day, so I figured that I might start mentioning it more. After all it IS a pretty big part of my life up here in the Whites. So look out, I'm probably going to veer off in to bike speak on occasion.
Although winter seems like such a long way off I suspect we’ll see frozen
precipitation in the high country before we know it. As crystals pile up
the peril of avalanches won’t be far behind so I’m happy to announce the
upcoming *ESAW 2014 on Friday night November 7th and Saturday November 8th* *in North Conway, NH*. *This year we have a new venue at “Theatre in the
Wood”, a few miles from IME and last year’s elementary school location.*
*Registration and up to date information is online at www.esaw.org.
You can contact us at esawavalanche@gmail.com Our social networking will
be active on facebook and our new Twitter feed ESAW@ESAWavalanche. The
registration fee will again be 75.00 which includes all the talks, several
raffles throughout the day, coffee, donuts/fruit and social at IME with
hops and barley. We will stretch ourselves thin, but the registration will
also include Friday’s fun evening social, beverages, music, and a slide
show soon to be announced highlighting climbing big snowy mountains. If
you can’t make it Friday night that’s ok, but you will be missing out on a
great time!
We
are also partnering up with the *American Alpine Club (AAC)* over the next
3 years to help bring more avalanche education to climbers. Unfortunately,
in the Northeast climbers lead our avalanche fatalities and accidents so we
are partnering to change this trend. The AAC’s “Live your Dream Grant” now
has an additional ESAW Award and Friday night will in part be a fundraiser
to raise awareness about all the AAC is doing.
Any remaining funds will go to The White Mountain Avalanche Education Fund
set up to educate kids of the northeast about avalanches. For more
information follow this link to the MWAC website.
http://www.mountwashingtonavalanchecenter.org/about/white-mountain-avalanche-education-fund/
If you are a teacher or a coach of High School students please let me
know if you are interested in your young adults coming to ESAW at no
charge. We look forward to seeing all of you at ESAW 2014 in North Conway NH on November 7th and 8th! Please forward this to anyone you feel may be
interested.
Chris Joosen- Director Mount Washington Avalanche Center, White Mountain
National Forest
Hardly anything is out there so it's a flat 0. Enjoy it folks.
IMPORTANT NOTE - there was a case of a local person contracting EE, which is gotten through mosquito bite. The local paper reported today that she DIED! It is not clear that they got it here, but it's worth knowing. Wear bug spray in the woods, and at twilight and early morning.
Mark your calendar for Saturday, October 25, 2014. It’s time for our annual Fall BBQ in New Hampshire As always it’s BYOB and a grille item. The club will provide the grille, and side salads.
When: Saturday October 25, 5pm till 9pm
Where: Base of Cathedral – picnic area opposite kisok
Contact: New England Section Co-Chair Nancy Savickas
nj_savickas_28@hotmail.com
Up on one of the Mount Washington Valley's finest crags and want to know what that climb you're looking at is? Or maybe you're on your way up from Boston and want to check out the Ice Report for your upcoming weekend plans. Or more likely, you're at work just want to daydream about your next adventure. Well if you have a smart phone handy, you can get to NEClimbs from anywhere you have cell service. While it doesn't offer every single feature of the site and it's not an "app", in mobile form, it does do a whole lot and is very useful. Here is the live link to the mobile version of NEClimbs:
http://www.neclimbs.com/mobile
Check it out and if you have issues on your specific phone, please feel free to let me know.
Join us and LIKE us on Facebook. I'll try and post interesting pix every Thursday and the latest Ice Report in the season, tho certainly not the whole Report. Here's where you can check it out:
http://www.facebook.com/NEClimbs/
Remember - climb hard, ride the steep stuff, stay safe and above all BE NICE,
Al Hospers
The White Mountain Report
North Conway, New Hampshire
| The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the world. |
| Yvon Chouinard |
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