Winter Weather 22/23

[Ripitz]

Maybe the ice climbers will have a Merry Christmas.

 

[jasonwx]

now and then i get my shit right...mostly not
current OB from Mt Mansfield
Speed 70 gust 130mph
Mt Washington gust 147mph

 

[NorEaster27]

Buffalo

 

[jasonwx]

Maybe the ice climbers will have a Merry Christmas.

nope..flash freeze brings brittle ice...I have climbed most the major routes in the adks

 

[Ripitz]

I have climbed most the major routes in the adks

Savage.

 

[jasonwx]

Savage.

it was cool but it was guided..I used to climb with Rock and River..IMO best guide service in the daks .... Fav climbs all the ones off of Chapel Pond and of course the classic Roaring Brook Falls...

 

[Campgottagopee]

.I have climbed most the major routes in the adks

You ever climb in Smugglers Notch? Peeps would come from all over the place to climb there.

 

[Ripitz]

They say, the best thing about backcountry skiing in the ADK High Peaks is the ice climbing.

 

[TheGreatAbyss]

Natural snow is an occasional bonus, but snowmaking is the product even in northern Vermont.
Estern skiers are like the frog in the pot on the stove. We don't notice that it contiinually gets worse until it's all over. No one would have built ski areas in the East if the weather were like this back when they were built.

I dunno - Did the ski areas of southern PA, West Virginia, The Poconos, or the hills of Northern NJ ever rely predominantly on natural snowfall? I don't remember Vernon Valley/Great Gorge being a particularly natural snowy place back in the 90s.

 

[Harvey]

Looks like Tremblant is the call for Christmas.

Standing by this. Closed today because of blizzard conditions, not ncp.