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The weather all weekend was lovely, ok a bit warm in the sun by the end, but still lovely. No rain, routes were generally on the drier side (especially for spring), and I wasn't bothered at all by bugs.
Saturday we climbed a really long route on White Horse Ledge, near North Conway. This was a long, mostly slabby (less than vertical) trad climb. Probably around 1100' (350m) in length, it was quite the work-out for the calves. This was on granite, rock that I'm familiar with and easy slab is a type of climbing I'm familiar with -- I've done similar climbs in the Adirondacks.
Sunday and Monday we were at Rumney, which is steeper rock and is schist. This is a far sharper rock -- the popular routes have gotten a bit smoothed, but are still sharp -- going off the popular track (as I did on top-rope a couple times when re-climbing a route to clean the anchors), the rock was very sharp. It, too, was interesting and good climbing, but we didn't do nearly as much distance there. A combination of being somewhat tired on Sunday, and having to leave not-too-late on Monday because of the drive home.
And, I must say that the I91 border crossing back into Canada (Vermont-Quebec) is the wrong place to be at the end of a May (and possibly any other) long weekend. Literally 2 hours waiting in line for the border. Then, just for icing, the Champlain bridge into Montreal from the south shore was down to one lane due to construction -- but that was only another 15-20 minutes of delay.
This was, also, the break-in run with my new car. I picked it up Thursday evening. On the whole, I'm pretty happy with it for longish trips. It does seem to have a much longer range on one tank than my previous car -- I think this is a combination of being more fuel efficient and possibly having a larger tank, too.
Saturday we climbed a really long route on White Horse Ledge, near North Conway. This was a long, mostly slabby (less than vertical) trad climb. Probably around 1100' (350m) in length, it was quite the work-out for the calves. This was on granite, rock that I'm familiar with and easy slab is a type of climbing I'm familiar with -- I've done similar climbs in the Adirondacks.
Sunday and Monday we were at Rumney, which is steeper rock and is schist. This is a far sharper rock -- the popular routes have gotten a bit smoothed, but are still sharp -- going off the popular track (as I did on top-rope a couple times when re-climbing a route to clean the anchors), the rock was very sharp. It, too, was interesting and good climbing, but we didn't do nearly as much distance there. A combination of being somewhat tired on Sunday, and having to leave not-too-late on Monday because of the drive home.
And, I must say that the I91 border crossing back into Canada (Vermont-Quebec) is the wrong place to be at the end of a May (and possibly any other) long weekend. Literally 2 hours waiting in line for the border. Then, just for icing, the Champlain bridge into Montreal from the south shore was down to one lane due to construction -- but that was only another 15-20 minutes of delay.
This was, also, the break-in run with my new car. I picked it up Thursday evening. On the whole, I'm pretty happy with it for longish trips. It does seem to have a much longer range on one tank than my previous car -- I think this is a combination of being more fuel efficient and possibly having a larger tank, too.
