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guiding fat ice in New Hampshire 7-22 February 2009.
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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.
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Friday 25th |
Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 45°,
Tonight's low: 25° |
| Saturday
26th |
Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 52°,
Tonight's low: 36° |
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Sunday
27th |
Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 51°,
Tonight's low: 46° |
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Monday
28th |
Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 68°,
Tonight's low: 52° |
| Tuesday
29th |
Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 68°,
Tonight's low: 37° |
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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° |
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Friday 2nd |
Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 49°,
Tonight's low: 26°
Ice forming at Linville Gorge today. Extremely
cold with wind chill.
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Saturday
3rd |
Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 47°,
Tonight's low: 40° |
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Sunday 4th |
Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 66°,
Tonight's low: 48° |
| Monday 5th |
Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 45°,
Tonight's low: 30° |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Saturday
10th |
Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 50°,
Tonight's low: 26° |
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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° |
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Tuesday
13th |
Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 47°,
Tonight's low: 25° |
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Wednesday
14th |
Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 37°,
Tonight's low: 29°
   
Above: Hwy 215, Lower Wall, Upper Wall.
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| Thursday
15th |
Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 32°,
Tonight's low: 24° |
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Friday 16th |
Pisgah Areas: Today's High: 35°,
Tonight's low: 26° |
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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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