www.PeteWilk.comEric and I had a St. Patrick’s Day party at our house last night. I invited a few friends and we had a pretty good turn out of around 12 for dinner. I started cooking early in the day by making the dessert, an Irish Coffee Cake. The cake had more than a shot or […]
The plan for this weekend had long been to bring Carly, Ben, and Tom up to New Hampshire where Chris and I would give them some ice climbing time. We had the whole thing planned out, where and when we would go, rent gear from IME, lodging etc. A nagging feeling that this winter just […]
Winter is finally starting to come around now that it is the end of February? Jeeze would have been nice a couple months back. My usual partners were either busy with school or chicken about the weather potentially being rainy for the weekend so I had to resort to someone else to get a climbing […]
The terrible winter of 2011-2012 toils on. Terrible you say? How can you complain about mid forties and no snow pack even well into New Hampshire? Well if you’re an ice climber or skier then it shouldn’t be hard to figure out why this winter stinks. Despite the failings of Mother Nature, or climate change, […]
Headed up to Crawford Notch the weekend of Jan. 21-22. Chris, a new friend from Harvard Cabin, Brian, and me packed into the Subaru and went northward to take advantage of the finally winter conditions in the North Country. Saturday we did Shoestring Gully (WI2) on Mt. Webster. The approach was a bit tedious because […]