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Cardigan 5-24-05

salida

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Mount Cardigan
Date Hiked- May 24th
Trails Used- holt
Distance- 7 miles in 2.5 hours
Conditions- Wet, most stream crossings were extremely high, often times having to travel up river to get across without going over my boots, the top 200 vert were extremely challenging on the slippery above treeline rocks, winds were steady at 40 gusting to 60... fairly hairy hike for Southern New Hampshire, have been in high winds before, but this hike was particularly intense
Report: Good hike to try out the new Trango La Sportiva boots, other than that, pretty crappy conditions with no view and killer winds with wind driven rain at 36 degrees at the top... still fun to test your limits though
 

MtnMagic

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Once 3 of us attempted the Holt trail in a snowstorm on May a few years ago. Wasn't going to happen that day. Yes agreed, fun to test your limits. That's some great hiking salida!
 
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