I don’t get out climbing all that often, but when an opportunity presented itself to go climbing over in Vermont at the very beginning of finals week, I decided to put the books down and head out climbing. We went up a place called Elephant’s Throat up Smuggler’s Notch – pretty close to the Stowe Ski Resort. It was quite a bushwhack to get there through lots of snow, but the climb was worth it. Two pitches or gully ice and then we were at the top. A nice day to be outside.
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- A view of Mike rappelling down the top pitch of the climb.
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- Looking up towards the climb, after we got about the trees. The climb itself is the gully to the right of the icy cliff.
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- Mike leading the first part of the second pitch.
