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Is global warming gonna end ice climbing in WA?


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Will water ice climbing (that is sanely close to a road) virtually be non existent in Washington as this place gets warmer? We are getting more and more bummer years. When I was a kid, Leavenworth was like ice mecca but in more recent times we are all getting burned for larger and larger chunks of the year (no ice).

Maybe we'll all just be craggers, ski-mountaineers, and alpinists and we'll leave the ice/mixed game to the Colorado and Canmore folks. (My rant for the day)

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This January was just slightly rainier (1mm more total precip.) than January 1992. And here comes the sun on Sunday.

That may be true in Canadia, but it was the third wettest month on record in Seattle.

The early 1980's had a very strong el nino which lead to colder winters on Orcas where I grew up. We skated regularly on our pond which I don't know has frozen at all in the last fifteen years.

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