Salmon River Falls, an hour north of Syracuse, New York. A beautiful setting, with a wide falls with a 100′ drop. A bend in the river created a horseshoe gorge which presents an amphitheater of long single-pitch ice and mixed (shale) routes. Everything from easy WI3 to overhung M7+. Only a couple miles from the…
Category: Mixed Climbing
Reunion
Reunion is a WI4/M4 mixed climb at Chapel Pond, Keene Valley. Mixed climbing involves “dry-tooling” as well as standard ice climbing. As you can see, the ice is thin or non-existent in certain parts of this climb. It is required to use the ice tools and crampons directly on the rock in this case. That…
