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February 10, 2024
Hi Folks,
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
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...
http://www.neclimbs.com/index.php?PageName=review&ReviewID=20240117
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.
https://www.grammy.com/videos/tracy-chapman-luke-combs-fast-car-2024-grammys-performance-66th-annual-grammy-awards?
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
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The usual pictures will be on NEClimbs.com and FaceBook if available.
Riding this past week has been great. Everything has been in super shape. Get out and ride.
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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:
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
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