"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." - Hannah Arendt
DanO I think you may need to do less reading about gear online and more actual things outside. It may change some of your theories into informed opinions.
Unless we are all too busy climbing to facebook it. But usually you get a week of warning before there's any climbable ice anyways.
Best way I know of to get climbable ice to form on the Coast is for me to go climbing in Banff or Jasper. Happens every time