In Boston Dec 3-5... what to do?
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Look like i will be in the Boston Area and will have the weekend of Dec 3-5 with nothing to do. I will travel up to 300miles. |
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It is a crapshoot in New England, especially then. You might get a nice sunny day and you could be enjoying sport climbing at Rumney, or it could be spitting freezing rain. I would think your best bet would be sport climbing or bouldering, depending on your luck with the weather. |
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Ice on Mt. Washington, just watch neice.com for conditions. If you're lucky you might hit a good snowstorm, then I'd pack skis. Like M. Sprague said it's a crapshoot. If it's anything like last year, you may enjoy some warm days on the rock. |
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Drink all the New England beers you can get your monkey fists on!! |
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I guess I should take a break from arguing semantics and philosophies and be helpful. |
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Like the others said, early Dec is a really transitional time. It's usually too cold for rock, but not cold enough for a long enough time yet to have built up much ice. If you are just looking to kill a few hours without driving very far, the best bet for rock at that point is C wall at Quincy Quarries (it's listed on this website). The C wall is located in kind of an alcove that gets a lot of sun, so it's kind of a natural oven that stays like 10 degrees warmer later in the year than most places. It's all slabby short one-pitch TR climbing though; no pro at all. Good enough for a single Sat afternoon visit if you've never been and you have nothing better to do anyway, but be forewarned that it's going to seem quite lame next to a playground like Rumney--its principal attraction is that it's really easy to get to. If you want to do ice, you will need to get to high elevations: either Tuckerman or Huntington ravine on Mt. Washington. Those are high, exposed, and above treeline though; if it's a nasty windy day you'll want to bail. Another higher elevation (and thus, usually fat enough to be climbable a couple of weeks earlier than other locations) ice option that nobody mentioned is Mt. Avalon at the north end of Crawford notch. The ice is down in the trees, it's difficult to find, the approach involves bushwhacking, and it's not listed on mountainproject.com but it is described in the standard guide book for the area "An Ice Climber's Guide to Northern New England". Check neclimbs.com and neice.com for up-to-date ice conditions; who knows, if Thanksgiving is a cold one this year you may get lucky and there could be other locations that are in that early as well. |
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Like Scott said - drinking is your best option. |
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I will actually be out in boston from Nov 29 to Dec 10 for Acme Packet Training but only have the weekend of Dec 3-5 free... So while im out there training i will have lots of Times to Drink. I will probably head over to Boston Rock Gym during the week and may be in search of a climbing partner at the gyms as well. |
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sunder wrote:I will actually be out in boston from Nov 29 to Dec 10 for Acme Packet Training but only have the weekend of Dec 3-5 free... So while im out there training i will have lots of Times to Drink. I will probably head over to Boston Rock Gym during the week and may be in search of a climbing partner at the gyms as well. So it looks like im packing everything. Ice Gear, rock gear, and ski's. I have been out to quincy quarries its a pretty sweet place minus the graffity i was on J Wall when i was out there.Sunder... If you don't mind the cold, there is lots of climbing to do! |
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For real- i would head down to Lincoln Woods, RI. It's a quick drive and the bouldering is very good. Early Dec should still be fun in the sun. |
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So one of my weekends free i will be flighing out my fiance to go skiing can anyone recommend really good ski resorts in NH or VT for Dec10 - Dec 12. |
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If the weather is at all nice and there's not much snow, bouldering is an option at Pawtuckaway, Lynn Woods, Lincoln Woods, or the areas around Boston. Can't comment on the ice situation or the skiing, but I'll be out bouldering. |