After being cursed with two weekends in a row with warm temps and heavy rain (1/17/10 and 1/24/10), all ice in Central PA was unfortunately wiped out and we had to start the building process from scratch. After several weeks of cold temps, we finally have ice back into early season condition.
Tom Mrotek and crew went to Lock Haven on Saturday 2/13/10 to assess the conditions. He reports:
Roadside is still flowing at the bottom heavily. Upper tiers are fairly in though.
Hidden was in but thin. Climbed and toproped all three tiers.
Gemini looks like the upper tiers are in but didn't go over there. Will probably be going to Gemini tomorrow.
Eric Durante reports from their trip on Sunday 2/14/10:
Tom Mrotek, Aaron Regberg, and I shared a romantic Valentine's Day climb on the lower pitches of Gemini. While the ice down low was good, and everything up top appeared to be in and solid, the weather was quite warm by early afternoon. Upon reaching the bottom of the final pitch in the left gully, we discovered that there was quite a bit of water dripping and running behind the ice. The conditions appeared to be ripe for things to become unstable pretty quickly, so we decided to leave the top pitch alone for now. If the weather turns very cold again before it warms up, even for a few days, I expect that both sides will be in quite nicely. If the weather stays like it is, It'll likely get a little sketchier every day.
Driving past, Roadside Gully appeared to be in very poor shape with the entire bottom section running a lot of water, and the top tiers not very well formed.
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Left Gemini Gully - 2/14/10 (Eric Durante photo) |
Dave in General, 2/14/2010 •
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