Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Local ice conditions photos




Some of the ice in SWPA is still in decent shape! For today...


Laura and I spent a few hours today checking some of the local ice climbing areas. Some were in bad shape and will surely fall down, while others... well they look good for now and will hopefully survive the warm spell ahead of us. Today temps at the different crags varied from 46 to 36°. The forecast is calling for temps up into the mid 50's and possibly even 60° over the weekend with cooler weather coming after that. Looks like dry tooling until then. Speaking of dry tooling, we did spy a few new lines that may receive some attention over the warm up. Keep posted for details on that. For now on to the current conditions




IRISHTOWN, Lower wall






Mouth of Madness WI5- and The Prow WI3 M4R, started, but never filled in




Dynamite M6+ is waiting for you




Dirty-T M4+ ready to go...




New dry tool line? #1




New dry tool line? #2





OHIOPYLE, Lower Meadow Run







Laura walking across the bridge on approach




Ice lines are sunbaked and never fully formed




Main Flow WI3+ will need to reform




Anger Management M6 and Caveman M7 were climbable




The start to Captain Caveman M7






Elsewhere in SWPA






This 200' beauty was sweet!




The Sick-le WI5+ M6 free hanger is 40-50' long currently and
still not touching...Going down, in a bad way!





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