I received a mid week report from Ed Hosler,  Lock Haven YMCA Climbing Director. This was very valuable to assess the damage from the warm temperatures and light rain that fell on Tuesday. Ed reports: “Amber Young and I were at the Roadside Gully yesterday. Unfortunately we only were able to climb a small amount of route due to getting on the ice later in the day. Conditions at Roadside are good. There is a hole in the ice about 30 ft. up, but I still think we have some time left this season. We only played around on the bottom section, Amber got her first picks in and was feeling good. From what I could see all the upper tiers are still good. Most of the bottom is still snow covered, which makes for some cool tooling on the scramble up to the first tier. As always, be safe.” From the report and photos, ice conditions don’t look like they took that much of a hit from the warm weather. Thanks for the update Ed!

Roadside Gully 02/21/07. (Ed Hosler Photo)

Amber on the low angle approach, Roadside Gully. (Ed Hosler Photo)