NH_Mtn_Hiker
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This past Thursday (8/25) Dugan and I drove to a trailhead in the WMNF to bag a 4,000 footer. While this trail isn't generally used to hike 4,000 footers, it is frequently used by people working on their NEHH lists.
We headed out on the nearly level trail and reached a brook crossing 8/10ths of a mile later. From here we left the trail and followed an obvious herd path up the left bank about .1 mile to a campsite. Beyond here the herd path became more difficult to follow so we jumped into the brook and rock hopped about a mile upstream passing several other campsites to a wall of debris acoss the brook.
We bushwhacked around the right side of the wall and discovered a confluence just beyond it. We took the right branch upstream and quickly realized we were on the slide we were looking for.
The lower portion of the slide is little more than a dried up brook, but a little further up it widens and becomes a talus field. The middle portion of the slide is very ledgy with some wet and tricky areas. Some of the rock on the ledges is loose and crumbly. We skirted the edge next to the trees to get through some of the more difficult areas. The upper portion of the slide is mostly loose rock and gravel.
From the top of the slide we bushwhacked about 2-3 hundred yards to the trail along the ridge. The bushwhack through the 10-20 foot tall evergreens was difficult in places, but far from impassable. There was no evidence of herdpaths in this area.
After reaching the trail we continued East past the site of the old fire tower to the summit where we had lunch while enjoying the views. We then ventured on down the trail to bag another nearby 4,000 footer.
To return to the car from the top of the second peak we decided to bushwhack it. We descended the thickly wooded west slope losing about 1400' elevation in about 3/4 of a mile. Then we followed the brook in the bottom of the ravine back the confluence where the wall of debris was. From here we bushwhacked and rock hopped back to the brook/trail junction, then out the easy trail to the car.
While this slide isn't nearly as steep as some of other slides in the area, it rises about 400 feet more than the North Tripyramid Slide and is nearly three times it's length. Even more interesting is the fact that while the slide looks quite impressive from the road that the trailhead is on, only about the upper 2/3rds of the slide is visible from the road.
It took us 5 1/2 hours from trailhead to the first summit. Three hours of which was spent on the slide. In comparison, it took us 55 minutes to climb the Arrow Slide on North Hancock.
Note: The steep ledgy sections with the crumbly rock were very hazardous.
High Res. pics.
So....can you guess which slide this is? and the names of the two 4,000 footers, the name of the trail we started on, the name of the brook, the NEHH peak/s near this trail?
If you'd like more info...or clues, post or PM me.
We headed out on the nearly level trail and reached a brook crossing 8/10ths of a mile later. From here we left the trail and followed an obvious herd path up the left bank about .1 mile to a campsite. Beyond here the herd path became more difficult to follow so we jumped into the brook and rock hopped about a mile upstream passing several other campsites to a wall of debris acoss the brook.
We bushwhacked around the right side of the wall and discovered a confluence just beyond it. We took the right branch upstream and quickly realized we were on the slide we were looking for.
The lower portion of the slide is little more than a dried up brook, but a little further up it widens and becomes a talus field. The middle portion of the slide is very ledgy with some wet and tricky areas. Some of the rock on the ledges is loose and crumbly. We skirted the edge next to the trees to get through some of the more difficult areas. The upper portion of the slide is mostly loose rock and gravel.
From the top of the slide we bushwhacked about 2-3 hundred yards to the trail along the ridge. The bushwhack through the 10-20 foot tall evergreens was difficult in places, but far from impassable. There was no evidence of herdpaths in this area.
After reaching the trail we continued East past the site of the old fire tower to the summit where we had lunch while enjoying the views. We then ventured on down the trail to bag another nearby 4,000 footer.
To return to the car from the top of the second peak we decided to bushwhack it. We descended the thickly wooded west slope losing about 1400' elevation in about 3/4 of a mile. Then we followed the brook in the bottom of the ravine back the confluence where the wall of debris was. From here we bushwhacked and rock hopped back to the brook/trail junction, then out the easy trail to the car.
While this slide isn't nearly as steep as some of other slides in the area, it rises about 400 feet more than the North Tripyramid Slide and is nearly three times it's length. Even more interesting is the fact that while the slide looks quite impressive from the road that the trailhead is on, only about the upper 2/3rds of the slide is visible from the road.
It took us 5 1/2 hours from trailhead to the first summit. Three hours of which was spent on the slide. In comparison, it took us 55 minutes to climb the Arrow Slide on North Hancock.
Note: The steep ledgy sections with the crumbly rock were very hazardous.
High Res. pics.
So....can you guess which slide this is? and the names of the two 4,000 footers, the name of the trail we started on, the name of the brook, the NEHH peak/s near this trail?
If you'd like more info...or clues, post or PM me.
