timmus
04-28-2009, 08:49 PM
Last weekend we were in NH, after almost 6 months since the last visit. Saturday was a good day : 4 Huntington's were climbed. Our friend Karl joined us (he actually started the whole thing), and after spoting a car at the Hancock overlook we started the bushwhack from the Kancamagus Pass parking lot.
Doing the whole ridge was not too bad (8 hours in total), there's a lot of open spots up there. The worst was going up West Huntington. That peak is very particular, too bad we didn't find the top of the ledges so we can enjoy a view. 4 peaks, 4 canisters. NH is great.
Sunday I went for Kancamagus peak while JS was doing South Hancock. I started from the highway, and with a good planned route I made it up and down in less than 3 hours. I was punching through a little, even with snowshoes, but I took advantage (still !) of the crust over the blowdown fields just below the summit.
PICS (http://www.julillustration.com/Huntingtons/index.htm)
Oh, and I didn't find time to write a decent TR for our Wallface adventure, but the pics are online now, if you are interested : http://www.julillustration.com/wallface/index.htm
(Sorry I have absolutely no time for captions, but it's easy to figure it out : Julie, JS. Karl, nice views, fun day, spruce trap, fire tower, etc :D )
Doing the whole ridge was not too bad (8 hours in total), there's a lot of open spots up there. The worst was going up West Huntington. That peak is very particular, too bad we didn't find the top of the ledges so we can enjoy a view. 4 peaks, 4 canisters. NH is great.
Sunday I went for Kancamagus peak while JS was doing South Hancock. I started from the highway, and with a good planned route I made it up and down in less than 3 hours. I was punching through a little, even with snowshoes, but I took advantage (still !) of the crust over the blowdown fields just below the summit.
PICS (http://www.julillustration.com/Huntingtons/index.htm)
Oh, and I didn't find time to write a decent TR for our Wallface adventure, but the pics are online now, if you are interested : http://www.julillustration.com/wallface/index.htm
(Sorry I have absolutely no time for captions, but it's easy to figure it out : Julie, JS. Karl, nice views, fun day, spruce trap, fire tower, etc :D )