| Summary | |
| Owner | MITOC Gallery Administrator |
| Creation Date | 2006-12-03 23:32:43 UTC-0500 |
| Description | Woody Hoburg Darren Verploegen December 3, 2006 Moby Grape - Cannon - 5.8 Darren and I have never been climbing in December, so we are excited. Thanks to the warmest fall I remember, ever, we are inspired to head up to Cannon and see if it is dry. Well yes in fact, we are greeted with dry rock and... icicles?? Never mind that the ice will melt as the day goes on, it's time to go climbing. We head up to the base of Reppy's crack on Moby, rumored to be the most classic, (or best?), handcrack in the white mountains. Basically, this thing rocks. Above, we continue up to the base of pitch three, below "the triangular roof". It's raining ice. Huge chunks are falling off above with a periodicity on par with old faithful itself. Lucky for us, they break into non-lethal sizes before they get to us. We extend pitch three to a hanging belay with shelter from the ice barrage. Soon after we find that a key crack on the climb is ice-filled. We chip enough out to get solid pro, and work through the ice section towards better looking rock above. Woody falls here and Darren frech frees one move. Above the icy dicey stuff, we head up the fickle finger of fate to a nice ledge. Above this point, the rest of the climb is 5.7 or below, but it looks way too wet or icy for our liking. So we find a way out right up a loose but easy gully and across an exposed slab to bushwhacking and the trail down! We didn't take enough pics, but what we've got is here. |