Another Weekend....

And there was more climbing... we saw a bunch of rain/sleet last week so I wasn't all that enticed to go out skiing. Instead, we figured the wintery mix weather might have helped form some ice... right....

The plan was to climb at Plotterkill Falls. Upon hiking down to the stream that eventually becomes the Falls, the large amounts of water flowing was very disgruntling. The way streams work mean this water was probably... yup pouring over the ice on the falls. This climbing would have been QUITE unpleasant.

We rallied back to the cars and made a stop at Cohoes. It was amazing how much of that ice had actually dissapeared from last week... what's the deal?! For some reason, a different line had sort of come in, and we ended up climbing it:



Doesn't that look sketchy? The crux is right below where Pat is in this picture. That chandelier like thing isn't very solid and we destroyed quite a bit of ice there....

The ice was also covered in flowing water (although less than Plotterkill) and if it wasn't relatively warm, it would have been pretty freezing. Regardless, fun times and even a bit of a harder climb than last week, so good stuff.