New England Ice, 15 March 2003
Pogue Mahone

I'd wanted to do a solo ice climbing trip for a few years now. A trip on which I would climb something big, but not too hard, and nothing that would make me perspire too heavily. For when I came down again, and the film crews all wanted a piece of me, I couldn't look all shiny. My fans deserve better.

Above, Horseshoe Gully (NEI 1-2, III) on Mt. Webster, one of the easiest technical routes in the Northeast. And hardest to find one's way onto.

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