dorchester ice

[max]

got out to dorchester yesterday there is more ice forming there then i've seen in the past. led 1 line things are still thin but forming well. max

[max]

got out to dorchester today.... got in one fun lead. If you have Joe's new ice guide the first route in dorchester is Hollow Curtain which isn't touching down. Everything else is in thick!! there is the potential for 4 other lines between Hollow Curtain and Unnamed #3. 1 being a steep slightly overhanging Pillar WI5/6 15m rap on V thread, 2 being a thin vertical flow very narrow at the bottom and very sustained 15m, 3 a variety of starts from WI2-WI3+ to a ledge then up the just off vertical ice to a few metre's on dry tooling to tree's WI4 25m, 4 being a gem if it gets climbed.... I think this would go in 2 pitches: start up Unnamed #3 and then when at the first sloping ice rail traverse right for 10+m to an impressive pillar, set anchor here, and climb died vertical ice for 20m, I think would be a solid WI5/6 route. I haven't seen these routes form at dorchester before not saying they haven't formed or been climbed in the past but I just have a feeling they haven't. I am going to try and post some pic's.

going to cape maringouin tomorrow should be another good day!

[max]

some pic's

[max]

kristen topping out Le Retour de Beausoliel WI3

[max]

a few more.

[max]

kristen is in the bottom left corner of the photo of her.... hard to see

[chossmonkey]

How bad is that rock? Looks like there could be some good mixed routes there.

[max]

the rock is horrible...... very rotten! even when frozen it falls apart.... there would be tremendous mixed routes there if the rock was good...... but the coastal rock in NB is bad more the most part.

[chossmonkey]

Worse than Pont Rouge?

[mathieu]

Hard to believe but yes, worse than pont rouge. The only reason pont rouge can be climbed is that its stratified horizontally so it sorta helps. In Dorchester, I wouldn't even call it rock.