Date(s) Hiked: 11/14/2009
Trails(s) Hiked: Crawford Path, Webster Cliff & Webster Jackson
Total Distance: 8.1 + about 2/10's on 302 back to the car
Difficulty: moderate due to wet conditions, in summer this is a pretty easy trip for two 4,000 footers
Conditions: wet with a little bit of ice whichw as easily avoided, a few blowdowns, One on the Crawford Path was the hardest to get around but still pretty easy.
Special Required Equipment: Waterproof windproof clothing.
Trip Report: The weather came in earlier than predicted on Friday so I opted for this trip instead of doing Ike & Pierce. At 7:15 Wind at the MWO was out of the SE but when I reached treeline on Pierce it was coming from the N or NE. Was a heavy drizzle until about 11:00 - 12:00 but by the time I got to Jackson, it was raining. Saw only one hiker all day but saw some other footsteps.
If I had just done Pierce, it would have been a more enjoyable hike, on the way down Jackson, the word that kept popping into my mind were dreary, gloomy & blusterly. Could only think of two songs with November in them; GnR's "November Rain" & Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" ("when the gales of November come early")
Mike P
mapaggioli4000@comcast.net
Trails(s) Hiked: Crawford Path, Webster Cliff & Webster Jackson
Total Distance: 8.1 + about 2/10's on 302 back to the car
Difficulty: moderate due to wet conditions, in summer this is a pretty easy trip for two 4,000 footers
Conditions: wet with a little bit of ice whichw as easily avoided, a few blowdowns, One on the Crawford Path was the hardest to get around but still pretty easy.
Special Required Equipment: Waterproof windproof clothing.
Trip Report: The weather came in earlier than predicted on Friday so I opted for this trip instead of doing Ike & Pierce. At 7:15 Wind at the MWO was out of the SE but when I reached treeline on Pierce it was coming from the N or NE. Was a heavy drizzle until about 11:00 - 12:00 but by the time I got to Jackson, it was raining. Saw only one hiker all day but saw some other footsteps.
If I had just done Pierce, it would have been a more enjoyable hike, on the way down Jackson, the word that kept popping into my mind were dreary, gloomy & blusterly. Could only think of two songs with November in them; GnR's "November Rain" & Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" ("when the gales of November come early")
Mike P
mapaggioli4000@comcast.net
