THIS IS THE END...

I've decided to give up climbing.  No, I'm  just joking, that'll never happen. Okay, so seriously now, ice climbing season is pretty much over.  There will be some mountaineering routes to do (stuff in Huntington Ravine and over in the Daks), but real ice climbing is near the end.  At Smugglers Notch today temperatures soared into the 40's.  Everything took a beating from the last couple days of warm weather and rain.  Granted it will get cold again and will probably snow more, well into April, many climbs will no longer be in condition.  Knowing this, I decided to go out for one more day of swinging tools.  Overall I had a good ice season: led some fun routes and climbed a route that I've wanted to do for a while now, The Black Dike.  

Isaac climbing a fun WI3

Rapping the route after setting the top-rope

Climbing up to set the top-rope