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Mellor, 70, another long-time Adirondack climber […], points out that the Adirondacks have seen numerous warm spells. He recalls rock climbing in summer clothes during a January thaw in the 1980s. Yet he observes that the long, deep cold spells that used to define the Adirondack winter are long gone.
“With the worry about climate change, ice climbing is so irrelevant to the things that matter,” he said. Yet he envisions a day when Adirondackers will say: “‘They used to ice climb around here.’”
Scary for someone in a budding, weather-dependent guiding career.