Hopefully the high temps and warm winds won't destroy all the ice that has already been built up. Stevens a pattern of Föhn conditions will dominate. December), we experienced a spell of very cold weather in a pattern coming from the northeast. Obviously the jolly fat guy doesn't climb ice. However, it seems that Santa has brought the Föhn with him along with all his other goodies. Ice conditions in the eastern Alps were really starting to come into shape after more that a week of very cold weather in mid-December. I've got two sets of tools, six crampons and nine screws to file and resharpen over the next few days of Christmas. As expected my crampons, picks and screws are pretty beat up after dealing with thin ice and rocks sneakily hidden under unconsolidated snow. I just got through a round of ice climbing as the first climbs of the season started to come into shape over the past few weeks.
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