powderfreak
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All I can say is I'll be heading back to the largest pile of rocks in the
east. I'd never been there in the ski season and it was more than worth the
effort. Highlights for me include being able to skin from the parking lot
(and having lots of folks ask if skinning is harder than hiking with them on
your back), the bootpack ladder that just kept going, skiing Hillman's, and
watching JJ rip true tele-turns down Hillman's (where's that knee drop in
the winter!)...then there's phase two where we hung out on the HoJos deck
drinking reeb, with caretaker Chris who knows everyone, before skiing down
the ski trail back to the car (complete with JJ raising the bar in
mud-skipping on skis).
Here are my photos...
Hillmans
http://tinyurl.com/3wv2pj
Trekking Jimmy
http://tinyurl.com/53kw9b
MWN summit
http://tinyurl.com/4dxrco
Hojos
http://tinyurl.com/4fmcxr
Skiing the top of Hillmans.
http://tinyurl.com/3o4m3o
http://tinyurl.com/4tg9xm
http://tinyurl.com/3jcrkv
Jimmy dropping the knee in the throat. The first one is my favorite shot
from the trip.
http://tinyurl.com/4mcxqg
http://tinyurl.com/3tgzzs
http://tinyurl.com/4nqefu
Back at HoJo's, here's a view of the Bowl. The Little Headwall is open
water and the bowl had a lot of runnels. It was odd, for the number of
people we saw hiking up with skis I never actually saw someone come down the
bowl.
http://tinyurl.com/4lth9x
On the ski trail back to Pinkham there were a lot of smiles going around.
http://tinyurl.com/4vtjsy
http://tinyurl.com/4dego9
We may not know where we are going, but we know where we came from.
http://tinyurl.com/4cby4g
Jimmy saw this sign and said, "ok, fine by me."
http://tinyurl.com/3sy7qf
And proceeded to skip mud all the way to the bottom when the snow started
getting patchy about half way down.
http://tinyurl.com/45ywv7
I had a ton of fun and can't wait to do it again.
And lastly, what trip to northern NH wouldn't be complete without some
moose? We had two separate moose sightings about a half hour apart in the
NEK of Vermont.
http://tinyurl.com/3fbfw4
-Scott
ps: Day 100 will be Monday somewhere.
east. I'd never been there in the ski season and it was more than worth the
effort. Highlights for me include being able to skin from the parking lot
(and having lots of folks ask if skinning is harder than hiking with them on
your back), the bootpack ladder that just kept going, skiing Hillman's, and
watching JJ rip true tele-turns down Hillman's (where's that knee drop in
the winter!)...then there's phase two where we hung out on the HoJos deck
drinking reeb, with caretaker Chris who knows everyone, before skiing down
the ski trail back to the car (complete with JJ raising the bar in
mud-skipping on skis).
Here are my photos...
Hillmans
http://tinyurl.com/3wv2pj
Trekking Jimmy
http://tinyurl.com/53kw9b
MWN summit
http://tinyurl.com/4dxrco
Hojos
http://tinyurl.com/4fmcxr
Skiing the top of Hillmans.
http://tinyurl.com/3o4m3o
http://tinyurl.com/4tg9xm
http://tinyurl.com/3jcrkv
Jimmy dropping the knee in the throat. The first one is my favorite shot
from the trip.
http://tinyurl.com/4mcxqg
http://tinyurl.com/3tgzzs
http://tinyurl.com/4nqefu
Back at HoJo's, here's a view of the Bowl. The Little Headwall is open
water and the bowl had a lot of runnels. It was odd, for the number of
people we saw hiking up with skis I never actually saw someone come down the
bowl.
http://tinyurl.com/4lth9x
On the ski trail back to Pinkham there were a lot of smiles going around.
http://tinyurl.com/4vtjsy
http://tinyurl.com/4dego9
We may not know where we are going, but we know where we came from.
http://tinyurl.com/4cby4g
Jimmy saw this sign and said, "ok, fine by me."
http://tinyurl.com/3sy7qf
And proceeded to skip mud all the way to the bottom when the snow started
getting patchy about half way down.
http://tinyurl.com/45ywv7
I had a ton of fun and can't wait to do it again.
And lastly, what trip to northern NH wouldn't be complete without some
moose? We had two separate moose sightings about a half hour apart in the
NEK of Vermont.
http://tinyurl.com/3fbfw4
-Scott
ps: Day 100 will be Monday somewhere.