Spring is in the air: Adirondack rock climbing
We're off to a great start this spring- with a continued trend of sunny clear days and cool nights. (Perhaps a little cooler than some years- but it keeps the rock dry and the bugs away- so I'm not complaining.) With the great weather and the cliffs to ourselves, we've had many beautiful days already this spring with guests from as far away as Utah and the UK joining us for the best in what my friend calls 'European style guiding'- day trips to some of the region's best single- and multi-pitch cliffs and evenings spent relaxing at comfortable lodges in our small mountain town. It's this combination of accessible and varied traditional climbing and small mountain town lifestyle that first brought us to the region as climbers, and convinced us to stay here as mountain guides.
But say you've already been here and cut your teeth on some of our classic multi-pitch rock and ice routes? Maybe you've already been into Wallface Mountain and climbed the Case Route or the Diagonal (one of the East's biggest wilderness cliffs) or already honed your mountaineering skills with an ascent & descent of Mount Colden's Trap Dyke or Giant's Eagle Slide? Then it's time to take those skills and experience to the bigger mountains. Washington State's North Cascades and Mt. Rainier are icons of our country's best alpine climbing and we have fond memories of climbing, sking and guiding there over the past decade. We'll be headed back again this summer (in collaboration with our friends at Alpine Endeavors out of the Gunks) for more alpine rock in NCNP and a Rainier summit climb in late July and early August. For more info and/or to register, check it out at alpineendeavors.com
