New England Ice Climbing, 7-9 January 2000
| Day one was at Willey's Slide in Crawford Notch. This is sort of everyone's "beginner slab." (Though fortunately there was no one there, or on any of the routes we climbed over three days.) Low-angle, maybe 45-degree snow and ice with occasional 50- to 70-degree bulges. At the top there was an 8-foot, 80-degree bulge. A lot of fun. Don fell on the way down on a huge verglassed, snow-covered slab. Robert and I could both see it coming and moved around the top of the slab, but Don decided to try to make it down. Sure enough, he slipped and slid about 20 feet before hitting a tree and stopping his fall. Luckily it was far more comical than serious. We named the section Don's Falls. | |
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