Ice Guide Critic

[Joe]

I am looking for errors, complaints and comments on the Ice Guide book so it can be improved in future editions. Any and all criticism is welcome, and I won't hold it against you. But if you're particularly harsh, you may not want me belaying you for a few days. Thanks, Joe.

[max]

hey joe,
this is on me.... here is an improved cape maringouin and rockport run down so it can be understood better. the fact that i wrote it and i can barely make sense of it myself is lame on my part. Also being there more the routes are shorter then I estimated originally so I changed that also.

as you walk west down the beach the the ice routes are as follows:
Routes looking from left to right:
1. WI 3+ Fat So 8m FA Max F/Heidi G 07
2. unclimbed WI3ish 12m
3. WI 4 A Frozen Morning 18m FA Max F/Heidi G 07
4. WI 4 2 Planes of Ice 18m FA Max F/Kristen L 09
5. Raining Ice WI 2-3 12m FA Max F/Kristen L 09
6. WI 3 Plates 15m FA Max F/Heidi G 07
7. WI 4 Brittle Sweet 18m FA Max F/Heidi G 07
I soloed a WI2 line between these 2 routes in a right facing corner 11
8. WI 3 Sore Feet 15m FA Max F/Heidi G 07
9. WI 3 3 Days of Feasting 12m FA Max F/Kristen L 09
10. WI 3 High Tides 10m FA Max F/Kristen L 09
11. WI 3 Winter Monkey 10m FA Max F/Kristen L 09
12. WI 1-2 easy line
13. WI 2 Thin But In 7m FA Max F Solo 11
As you round the corner of the Cape you will find these next routes
14. unclimbed WI 3 ish 8m
15. Root Beer WI 4 8m FA Michel M/Pierre A 11
16. Coward WI 4 8m FA Michel M/Max F 11
17. Crowded WI 3 8m FA Max F/Mike D 11
18. Sick Why Not WI 3+ 10m FA Max F/Marty T 11
19. WI 3 10m FA Marty T/Max F 11

Also Rockport:

As you walk along the beach south you some to:

1. A series of short ice bouldering problems that are fun and of varying difficulty
2. Milkshake WI 3 8m FA Max F/Heidi G
3. WI 2+ 8m FA Max F solo
4. WI 3+ 10m FA Max F/Heidi G
Sun Baked is around the corner, about 10 minutes from the parking spot.
5. Sunbaked WI 3 10m FA Max F/Heidi G

Hope this is helpful Joe.

[Dom]

Hey Joe I find the guidebook is almost perfect. Has everything you want and is very inexpensive. One thing though, is the routes at Hampton Marsh say 20M. I'd say they're more like 10M.

[theriault]

Hey Joe I find the guidebook is almost perfect.

+1



updated/better maps to some area would be good