You trudge up the 400' of talus from the road for that?

[quote
Yup. Hey, I bet it's more ice than you've poked this month.

---

you obvious haven't met his new GF

I crack me up

Good Job Mike!

I've climbed the REAL Minty of Ice Climbs in leaner conditions than that but that's just because I wanted to one-up Smike. But since you've beaten both of us, I can wait until the conditions are actually worth climbing

Actually, I probably had more fun on that slab today than ever before. Fat grade 3 slab ice can be boring, I suppose. This was anything but. For many of the feet placements, a large section of the unbonded ice would break, but then it was held to the rock surface by the surface tension of the water running behind it. The tool placements were pretty much "for balance only".

So basically, you were dry-tooling after you tapped the sheets of ice out of the way?

Looks like a sorry wet way to spend a few hours..............unlike, say, the fun of sending out CVs........OK, never mind, I'm just jealous!

Any unemployed folk who need a belay bitch, let me know..........

The still Irish, but soon to be American after my biometric scans get Dept. of Homeland Security clearance......

As soon as it gets cold, irish. I've got a car!

I'm not much of a ropegun, though...

Last Saturday, my farmer friend in the Union Square market told me each morning he has to break two inches of ice up in the watering troffs for the animals.

Best, Kim

Quote:

---

my farmer friend

---

My famer firend in where? Alaska.....

Here comes the cold. After a record high tomorrow the temps are supposed to drop until the high on Sunday is 32, for the champlain valley. There wasn't much winter around this weekend though. My wife and I were able to ride our mountain bikes all the way to the castle at the top of the whiteface memorial highway. There was almost no snow on the ground even at the summit.

Kevin