| definitely reverse your loop! always better to go up than down anything like that. besides, this way you can not summit passaconaway if you don't feel good half way through the loop. going counter clockwise, you have no bail option. while i know no one ever plans to bail on a hike, having a bail option on a loop is a good thing and reason enough to choose a different direction for the loop. i guess doing passaconaway is a bail option of not going over to rollins but having the bail option after rollins is better. boss, i am not a hard core hiker and didn't think twice about the ledges at passaconaway, they really aren't that bad in dry weather. |