| Like reading the White Mountain Report every week? Why not get it delivered to your e-mailbox every Thursday? All you have
to do is subscribe. It's fast, painless, and best of all it doesn't cost you
a dime! |
| CLICK HERE... |
June 15, 2023
Hi Folks,
This weather situation is indeed beyond annoying. I keep hoping it won't be like that spring we had quite a few years ago when it rained pretty much every day for 2 months. That said I suppose I will take the rain over the smog-laden air that much of the east coast has been experiencing. I had a rehearsal on Monday in Ashland and as I drove over Page Hill I could barely see Mt Chocorua both going and coming. Mt Washington was really obscured as well. I could feel it in my lungs too! [yikes]
I do know folks who are managing to get out and climb here & there. It just seems to be totally dependent on the location and spur of the moment. For example, I saw folks had been climbing on dry rock on Mt Forist while it was drizzling here in the Valley and the same thing with folks up at Echo. It had been somewhat dry with broken clouds Tuesday morning. So I got on my gear to go for a bike ride and just as I got the bike out of the garage we had a full-on deluge. Yes - raining the proverbial cats and dogs! So I switched plans and went into town to the gym. It rained all the way past IMCS, but by the time I got to the gym it had stopped. And not only that, it had not rained there AT ALL! It remind me of growing up in Jacksonville FL. Every afternoon in the summer when I had to deliver my paper route on my bike it would pour down rain.
Last night I played my weekly gig at Saco River Brewing in Fryeburg and the weather was surprisingly nice right up till ~7:45 when I finished packing up and was driving back to Conway the predicted storm came through with thunder, a LOT of lightning, wind and rain. By the time I got hope it was barely drizzling... I don't know what to do or think any more and I am sure you all are tired of hearing me whine about it. So I will do my best to stop!
JUST STOP IT AL :-) STOP IT
I am doing a show at the Majestic Cafe in Conway with the phenomenal guitarist Randy Roos on the 16th, a dinner show at the Wildcat Tavern in Jackson on June 22nd featuring award winning jazz vocalist Katie Oberholtzer and a band gig on the 24th at Ledge Brewing Company in Intervale. In addition I play every Wednesday through the summer from 5:30-7:30 with a revolving trio of friends at the Saco River Brewing Company in Fryeburg. We jam on a wide variety of tunes and it's a real gas. Not to mention that the beer is GREAT! Climb at Jockey Cap and come by for tunes and refreshments. PS there has been a fantastic food truck there as well. The Smashed Hamburger is highly recommended!
Still VERY annoying, at best.
When it's dry the riding is great. Operative word is "when", so what else is there to say? Work has been done on the trails in the Hurricane Zone and there are new trails being created on Pine Mountain between Kennett and Rt 16. Stay tuned... The downhill bike park at Cranmore is now open YAHOO
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
| Breaking into a new area of climbing while remaining safe is probably sort of like practicing religion. There's no best way to do it, and if you screw up, you're going down... |
| Nate Beckwith |
|
