Our descent was simple and straightforward in comparison to the Flume Slide. We passed by a large group of backpackers and some folks staying at the Liberty Spring tent site down the trail and made it back to the car around 3:30PM. A great hike on a perfect day, we grabbed some food on the way back home. Numbers 22 and 23 done!
July 31, 2011
Liberty and Flume
Our descent was simple and straightforward in comparison to the Flume Slide. We passed by a large group of backpackers and some folks staying at the Liberty Spring tent site down the trail and made it back to the car around 3:30PM. A great hike on a perfect day, we grabbed some food on the way back home. Numbers 22 and 23 done!
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July 28, 2011
Whiteface and Passaconaway
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July 14, 2011
Mount Osceola and East Osceola
The hike up Mount Osceola was a very steady grade and a relatively easy 3.2 miles. Unfortunately, the partly sunny forecast did not pan out as we were completely in a cloud when we reached the summit and had no views. We continued on for another 1.0 mile with a couple of very steep sections over to the summit of East Osceola which had a wooded summit in the clouds. We retraced our steps back to the car and had completed 4000 footers 18 and 19 by 12:45PM. Overall it was an enjoyable hike that was part of just a generally really nice time away in New Hampshire.
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July 4, 2011
The Wildcat-Carter Traverse
Whenever you do a long, end-to-end hike like this one, it's often tricky because you need to coordinate dropping a second car off at one end of the hike. Fortunately, Brian, Kate, and UP were willing to come along with us up the first peak (Wildcat D), and help us spot a car at the other end of the trek. (In fact, Mo was not originally planning on coming the entire 15 miles with us, but she changed her mind a mile into the hike and rather than turning around to return with the other group, decided to continue on with Katy and me). All six of us were up at 5:30AM and left the condo at 6:30AM to make our way out to the hike. We had two cars so we dropped Mo and UP off at the Wildcat Ridge trailhead and we continued on to the Imp trailhead to drop off our car. Brian brought Katy and I back to the Wildcat Ridge trailhead, and all six of us began our trek up at about 7AM.
This was a long and challenging hike but it was a perfect day for it and well worth it. Single day Presidential Traverse? Perhaps it is in our future.
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