Five Favorite Backcountry Tours

[noreasterbackcountry]

Over the past few days we've been posting our five favorite backcountry tours. Here's the first few:

#5 Camel's Hump, VT

#4 South Baldface, NH

#3 North Twin Slide, NH (with video)


More to come...

[noreasterbackcountry]

#2 North Tripyramid Slide, NH

[David Metsky]

#2 North Tripyramid Slide, NH

Not to be blunt, and I know you acknowledged it in your trip report, but heading up there without avy gear, training, or assessment, is pretty ridiculous. You were beyond lucky.

[from_the_NEK]

Not to be blunt, and I know you acknowledged it in your trip report, but heading up there without avy gear, training, or assessment, is pretty ridiculous. You were beyond lucky.

Seriously, collapsing switchbacks Beyond lucky is right.

[noreasterbackcountry]

And beyond stupid. Glad we didn't learn the hard way.

One of the great things about North Tripyramid is that if an avy assessment tells you it isn't skiable the surrounding glades are phenomenal.


Speaking of avy conditions, here's our favorite tour:

#1- Gulf of Slides, Mt. Washington, NH