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November 2005:

Thursday 24th Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 60°, Tonight's low: 25°

Overnight freezing but does not seem enough to start forming anything yet. No reports.

 

Friday 25th

Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 45°, Tonight's low: 25°
Saturday 26th Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 52°, Tonight's low: 36°

Sunday 27th

Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 51°, Tonight's low: 46°

Monday 28th

Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 68°, Tonight's low: 52°
Tuesday 29th Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 68°, Tonight's low: 37°

Wednesday 30th

Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 58°, Tonight's low: 35°

 December 2005:

Thursday 1st Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 52°, Tonight's low: 26°

Friday 2nd

Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 49°, Tonight's low: 26°

Ice forming at Linville Gorge today. Extremely cold with wind chill.

Saturday 3rd

Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 47°, Tonight's low: 40°

Sunday 4th

Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 66°, Tonight's low: 48°
Monday 5th Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 45°, Tonight's low: 30°

Tuesday 6th

Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 42°, Tonight's low: 25°

Reports of ice beginning to form at high elevations, not enough to climb.

Wednesday 7th

Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 50°, Tonight's low: 29°
Thursday 8th Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 38°, Tonight's low: 27°

Raining hard in Pisgah and not as cold as originally predicted. J. Thomas reports of really thin conditions at Winding Stair today, just enough to boulder. Water still running this afternoon.

Friday 9th

Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 46°, Tonight's low: 22°

Patrick Weaver reports no ice at Hwy 215 this evening. Not enough to even boulder on.

Saturday 10th

Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 50°, Tonight's low: 26°

Sunday 11th

Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 48°, Tonight's low: 23°

J. Burnette reports good ice at Hogpen Gap. About four groups there Sunday Morning. Should be still forming.

Stephen Scoff reports: "Whiteside's East face is unbelievably fat! Cinderella, Yellow Belly, Wild Coyote and another route (60' left of YB) were led this weekend. So too were Scotch and another (steeper) gully route a couple hundred yards further up the road".

Above: Whitesides, Cinderella, Yellow Belly.

Secondhand reports that Daughton Park and Lost Cove are 'in'.

Monday 12th Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 46°, Tonight's low: 25°

Tuesday 13th

Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 47°, Tonight's low: 25°

Wednesday 14th

Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 37°, Tonight's low: 29°

Above: Hwy 215, Lower Wall, Upper Wall.

Thursday 15th Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 32°, Tonight's low: 24°

Friday 16th

Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 35°, Tonight's low: 26°

Saturday 17th

Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 41°, Tonight's low: 28°

OK, OK, so I didn't do to well reporting the conditions this season. I was in the Alps and New Hampshire for a chunk of the season and it wasn't a bumper year to report. I'll try harder next year!

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