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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 31, 2009 - 08:08am PT
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GO, you're right, that little stream is just below the Meadows near Parking Lot Wall.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 31, 2009 - 08:09am PT
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Aya, what's the classic-looking climb in your first pic? How was it?
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Aya K
Trad climber
New York
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Mar 31, 2009 - 08:36am PT
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Slim Pickens at the spider's web in the dacks. You can see it as the dark corner in the blur on the cliff behind the last photo. Ultra mega classic by any definition (...and one of the few climbs I'm able to lead at the web. That place is HARD!)
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 31, 2009 - 08:54am PT
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Looks very cool. My total Daks experience = 2 routes, so obviously I've missed something in life.
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Aya K
Trad climber
New York
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Mar 31, 2009 - 12:30pm PT
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If you haven't been to the Spider's Web...
Well, I don't know. I can't come up with anything catchy!!! Ha. It would definitely be worth your time to come back. There is just so much rock EVERYWHERE!
Come over this summer and I'd be happy to take you around!
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GOclimb
Trad climber
Boston, MA
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One of my chief regrets is not getting to the Spiders Web before I left the area.
Needless to say, I have no recent pics appropriate for this thread.
Best I can do is one from my very last weekend of climbing before the big move:
That's me fighting the Barndoor on one of the sweetest 5.10 cracks I've seen in Mass. It's at Farley
GO
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 1, 2009 - 01:17pm PT
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I'm starting to think I need to visit Farley sometime.
Northeasterners will appreciate the fine green glaze on the rock in GO's photo.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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bump
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GOclimb
Trad climber
Boston, MA
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Farley is known for its sport, and the sport is decent. But I think some of the trad is really very good, at least by Mass standards.
Regarding that green glaze: There were several summer days last season when the night before had been quite cold, and the day was hot and humid. You know what happens when you come in from the cold wearing glasses? Well the rock was all dripping until noon. The green glaze must've had a field day on those days!
GO
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GOclimb
Trad climber
Boston, MA
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Chiloe, you know Jen. Here's another route from that same day, a nice 5.8 named Yosemite Crack.
GO
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 2, 2009 - 01:58pm PT
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Yep, I definitely should visit Farley.
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perswig
climber
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Apr 19, 2009 - 07:38pm PT
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April. Usually a month of transition here, but this year it's been the nicest, driest month - more than any climber could ask for, honestly.
The sheep are just a bonus. Baaa.
So, a small slice of spring in the Northeast, a long weekend in three installments; a tryptich, if you will.
(Hopefully, the arbiters of ST will find this acceptable.)
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Tomcat
Trad climber
Chatham N.H.
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Apr 19, 2009 - 07:50pm PT
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Perswig you leave those sheep alone !!
Tradchick and I left the adolescents to their own devices for a few precious hours at Humphery's.We threw our walkers behind some boulders and had fun in the sun.We saw many friends including the incredible Mr Hurley!He has us all beat...lol !!
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Apr 19, 2009 - 08:16pm PT
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There's climbing at the Spiders Web?
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perswig
climber
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Apr 19, 2009 - 08:51pm PT
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Friday. Took a vacation day.
Recent rain and the constant warm temps meant spring skiing on Mt. Washington would be making it's swan song sooner rather than later. The few days spent on the AT setup reminded me how light my tele rig really is, so I decide to stop at IME and bail it out of the consignment shop for the day.
The three-hour drive gets me to their door when they open; only, for some reason they don't open until 9 today. I grind my teeth, help a couple from PA get oriented for some winter camping and ravine touring, go to my happy place.
I dislike mission creep.
Lots of lenticulars on the drive over.
Gonna be winding up high.
Still wound from the wait, not yet settled by the zen of up, I forget to get a pan shot. This is from last year, a bit more snow than today.
The Inferno is tomorrow. The lot is packed, even by 0920. However, most lemmings head to Tucks. The discerning make for GoS. 2400' give or take to the floor of the gullies.
Tough skinning down low.
But the upper 1/2 or so of the trail is reasonable. I run into a group of guys on AT gear, pace the leaders for a bit and a slide by them when they break for their stragglers. In the groove, into the gulf in just over an hour.
Nobody else in the south snowfields. Get to set a track in rising corn. The snowpack is locked solid, but a few places have deeper boot pen and I saw some point sluffs from the rapid warming yesterday.
Lots of wind topping the ridge, likely gusting 40-50. I grab some grub, but tea from thermos to cup blows horizontal as I pour.
Time for down.
Stiff the first 50', smooth like butter the rest of the way.
Grin to the trail, nod and smile to the latecomers just making it up (everyone's got a silly, smug look today, like you're getting away with something).
Skins stay on for the skinny trail descent.
When the rock-hopping gets ridiculous, the skis go back on the pack and I leaf-and-mud glissade back to the lot.
Three hours and home to feed the dogs.
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Tomcat
Trad climber
Chatham N.H.
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Apr 19, 2009 - 08:55pm PT
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Great lenticulars Friday indeed!Looks like you had a fine day on the big hill.What a great time of year to live here.
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perswig
climber
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Apr 19, 2009 - 08:57pm PT
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Ha, Tomcat. It's only a crime if they catch you!
No pics from AARP at Humphry's? Liked your RR stuff - any more?
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Brian
climber
Cali
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Apr 19, 2009 - 09:01pm PT
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I miss New England...
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Tomcat
Trad climber
Chatham N.H.
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Apr 19, 2009 - 09:07pm PT
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Alas no pictures Dale.Just a bunch of folks doing alzheimerpoints in the sun.The big hill looked splendid too!
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perswig
climber
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Apr 19, 2009 - 09:26pm PT
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Second day, Saturday.
Sara's home, but torn between climbing with me (I beg, I plead, I bribe) and catching up with her friend Amy. She does both.
We head to the Ramparts in Camden. Trail's dry, sky's overcast but like a lot of spring days on the coast, no rain develops.
We pick the Ramparts for it's great cragging and limited sense of exposure - Amy's pretty a-scared of heights. Despite the cosy nature of the cliffband, I end of breaking the climbs, already short, into halfs and thirds (severely challenging my rope management skills) so Sara can coax and cajole and I can threaten with authority.
Sara coming up.
Sara sweet-talking Amy over the crux, a step over a 25' drop into a short finger crack.
Skeptically approaching the quite wide.
Sara following.
Like schoolgirls in studyhall. Serious inertia sets in. Only a chill in the air gets them moving again.
Pleased with themselves and each other, and rightfully so.
Sara looking more at home.
Short day, but the weather got sunnier, we got some climbing in and that's the point, eh?
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