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To quote legendary Red Sox baseball announcer Joe Castiglione, "Can you believe it?" Right now let's just believe the fact that it was 38 degrees in Crawford Notch this morning at 11 and it's 40 here in the Valley at 3:30. There's not a lot more to say than it's like mid-March in early February! WOW
NEW BOOK REVIEW:
If you haven't seen it, there is a new book review on NEClimbs.com of Inner Ranges by Geoff Powter. Dennis Crean did a great job on this review and this is one I have to read very soon. Check it out...
MUSICAL NOTES:
If you didn't see the Grammys on Sunday, the hit of the show was Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs doing a duet of Tracy's tune Fast Car. IMO it was the hit of the show. The full performance hasn't been on line until the Grammys themselves posted it. I can't encourage you enough to watch it.
There was a great article in The Atlantic about the performance and music in general. Here is the final paragraph, which really mirrors my feelings about music…
“Music has the power to move us, to refine and ennoble our sensibilities, to take us places—sometimes transcendent places—that other things simply can’t. Rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul, Plato wrote, imparting grace. But music requires musicians, and on Sunday night, America was witness to two very special ones. They were repairers of the breach, and we briefly shared not just a continent, but a country.”
-Peter Wehner - contributing writer at The Atlantic
Ice Conditions Report:
Selected Ice Conditions effective January 28, 2026
Overall there is a LOT of ice out there right now. From everything I hear, the better conditions are in the sun where the ice can get plastic. Stuff in the. Shade is hard, brittle, and it's not getting refreshed like we all would like.
Huntington Ravine
numerous options
Repentance
been done
Standard Route
GOOD
Dracula
IN & fat
For the full current conditions report, CLICK
HERE
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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:
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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
The vias normales had perfect lines but new rock was the essence of climbing for us; throwing loose holds over the shoulder, feeling the exposed grains crush like sugar on footholes....
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.
