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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Linville Ice

Judging from the overwhelming blog stats y'all are checking in pretty regularly!  Thanks so much for the support and I will try to keep the reports coming.  Since Facebook is stoking my psych for ice it looks like people got the message and have been making it happen out there.  215 was packed last weekend and the proof is in the pictures I have been seeing.  Plenty of fat ice up there and even good enough to bring Sean Cobourn out of ice retirement and swing the tools.  Here is the scoop from the last 3 days.
Thursday Jan 13- 215, not great but forming.
Friday Jan 14th- Whitesides, Snicefest on lower angled stuff but moderate fatness on steeper stuff.  The amount of snow really took a toll on the forming of new ice.
Sat. Jan 15: Linville area: A picture is worth a thousand words.

Katie Mattson swinging tools into WI 4+ near Linville Gorge





Bertrand "Swiss Stallion" Martenet cruising a possible FA mixed line.  We are looking into it. 





 

                         Bertrand pulling out of the business and on to 10cm ice near the top. 

All photos are courtesy of Jon Jones.  Check out more at www.jonmjones.com

Temps are starting to warm up here in Pisgah Forest but should still be good for climbing this weekend.  We are looking forward to the AMI Ice Climbing Demo day at 215 on Sat.  Registration is full at this time but we will see you out there.  LGO has bookoos of ice screws coming in on Thursday if you are still looking for some.  We have CAMP Radions and Black Diamond Express Screws up to 13cm.  Last time I checked BD was totally sold out so this might be the last chance for a while.
Have fun out there and see you on the ice!
Phil
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