Date(s) Hiked: March 10, 2007
Trails(s) Hiked: Ammonoosuc Ravine trail, Crawford Path
Total Distance: approx 7.7 RT
Difficulty: Difficult approc, 3800 feet vertical gain
Conditions: Early in AM hard parked snow three of four blowdowns, the first one requiring crawling to get underneath it. By the afternoon, warm snow made trail bare bootable all the way down from just below the hut.
Special Required Equipment: Crampons very useful/esesntial in the AM a couple of hundred feet below LOC hut to the top. Once it got warmer, anti-bots or some type of non-stick coating for crampons essential. After 10-12 times of stopping to free my crampns up from all the snow, i just took them off. Wind proof clothing from 10:00 - 12:00 as some gust were in the mid-40's
Trip Report:
The guys I was to hike with each had to bail out for good reasons. With a deteriorating forecast for late afternnon, I wanted to get an early start so I was on the trail at 7:00 AM. For years I've picked days to hike hoping to do Mt. Washington in the winter but when thoses days came, the weather made the Washington risky at best. Today a front was coming through late but with an early start I had warm temps & winds about average for winter. Out of four other winter hikes this year, by far the warmest. Actually saw one gy in shorts! First people I saw was a group of three guys on the top who had come up Lion's Head. Super day, at least through 2:00 PM.
Trails(s) Hiked: Ammonoosuc Ravine trail, Crawford Path
Total Distance: approx 7.7 RT
Difficulty: Difficult approc, 3800 feet vertical gain
Conditions: Early in AM hard parked snow three of four blowdowns, the first one requiring crawling to get underneath it. By the afternoon, warm snow made trail bare bootable all the way down from just below the hut.
Special Required Equipment: Crampons very useful/esesntial in the AM a couple of hundred feet below LOC hut to the top. Once it got warmer, anti-bots or some type of non-stick coating for crampons essential. After 10-12 times of stopping to free my crampns up from all the snow, i just took them off. Wind proof clothing from 10:00 - 12:00 as some gust were in the mid-40's
Trip Report:
The guys I was to hike with each had to bail out for good reasons. With a deteriorating forecast for late afternnon, I wanted to get an early start so I was on the trail at 7:00 AM. For years I've picked days to hike hoping to do Mt. Washington in the winter but when thoses days came, the weather made the Washington risky at best. Today a front was coming through late but with an early start I had warm temps & winds about average for winter. Out of four other winter hikes this year, by far the warmest. Actually saw one gy in shorts! First people I saw was a group of three guys on the top who had come up Lion's Head. Super day, at least through 2:00 PM.
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