Tuckerman Ravine - 5/3/09

Rolled into North Conway on Saturday, May 2nd. Ate some dinner and had some beers at the Moat Mountain Smokehouse and Brewery. I had the Pork, my wife (Candace) had the Brisket. Very tasty (beers were good too, especially the stout). Left the Holiday Inn Express (free room using points) at around 7:00 am, went to Hannaford to get lunch meats, and got on the trail at Pinkham Notch by 8:00.

Trail was good, mix of rocks and snow all the way up to HoJo's



Decent view of the ravine from just past Hojo's:



People were skiing Hillman's too (we didn't bother):



We made it up to the Ravine Floor around 10:45 or so. Snow was sweet, it was a little cloudy and not at all crowded yet.



After a hike up The Chute:



We looked down at the base of the Ravine (those little dots are people).

That last pic doesn't really do the steepness justice . . . It drops off pretty severely after that little knoll.

Anyway, we skied 2 runs and took a couple more pictures:





It was getting a little crowded so we ate some lunch and headed down the Sherburne Trail (which was open only about 1/4 of the way and had very thin cover - walking over grass for a lot of the way)





And we were off the trail by 3:00 to start the drive back to upstate NY. All in all, a totally successful trip.

awesome pictures and TR!!!! Way to get some May turns in!!!!

Very nice! Now if I could only get my wife interested in joining me in the Ravine....I can dream.....

well played my friend,,,

Awesome. And for the record, the stout is fantastic at Moat.

God Job!! Wow have things changed in a few short weeks

success indeed! great tr and a lady who skis chute. good stuff.

Nice pics. Moat Mt = Nice.