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Great photos! Makes me want to head back out there someday.

Excellent read, the idea of traverse always sounded simultaneously awesome yet knee poundingly painful to me. Glad things turned out well for you, these trip reports get me excited to go out for a nice hike of my own someday when I get a free weekend. Til then I will live vicariously through others.

I wonder which section it was, I am struggling to remember any real treacherous section prior to crossing the ledge in the photos above. That must have been just awful for everyone involved that day. Rest in peace.

I did this hike 6 1/2 years ago, and posted a trip report. Quick summary, about 11 miles for all four mountains, 4600 or so vertical, and it took me about 8 hours, two of which was lost hiking fort and destroying my clothes on the herd path and trees. Good hike, just don't descend the Coe slide...

Those photos are spectacular. I need to get my butt out west and check out those places.

It all sounds interesting to me. If used properly, it could be useful and informative info at a trailhead. The thing that bothers me is how polarizing these subjects are. If you support this, then you are a rich yuppie who will need to be rescued by a helicopter. If you don't support this, then...

Developed a "sports" hernia playing hockey 3 months ago, now two months out from open surgery. If anyone else has this open surgery, I would recommend not pushing your body after surgery, I really tore things up 2 weeks ago trying to ride the exercise bike to rehab, just getting over the pain...

I have a Nikon D3100 with a crop factor of 1.5X. I am guessing I might need one of the smaller zoom lenses mentioned by the folks in the prior posts?

I bought a new Nikon Dslr camera and got a 18-55 mm lens and a 55-200 mm lens. Question is, what would you camera gurus suggest I get if I were to get one more lens? I would generally be taking pictures of people, landscapes, and maybe shots of small interesting things like flowers, drops of...

You might want to check out the area between Camden and Belfast. It has small mountains, lakes, ocean and is within an hour and a half or so from Portland, Augusta, Bangor and Acadia national park. I lived in Camden for a few years and it was a nice place, a little slow in the winter for a 20...

What an absolute bummer. The Alchemist was awesome, as is all of Waterbury. The town got completely hammered by the flash floods, while 20 minutes up the road in Williston where I live, there are virtually no signs of anything more than a sprinkle yesterday. Some towns like Burlington have...

Awesome pictures and report. I was curious to see whom might be crazy enough to hike those slides, now I know. I feel like a gigantic wuss for having hiked these peaks via the blazed trails. It is nice to live vicariously through others whom are more manly/insane than me. Congrats for kickin butt.

Thanks for all the replies and info. Randalls, good luck with Killington, it is a pleasant mountain to finish on.

Many moons ago, I was a scrawny little blond haired kid rocking an Incredible Hulk tank top. The first “real” hike I can remember was when my parents took my brother and The Hulk up to Mt Katahdin to go backpacking. I was somewhere around 8 or 9 years old, and the first hiking memory that I...

What a fantastic trip report and photos. You really captured the beauty and power of the mountain.

Congrats. I have enjoyed checking out the cool waterfalls in Vermont based on your recommendations.

Nice report. While doing the 10 or so stream crossings on the Downes Brook trail, i wondered how the hike on Kate Sleeper over to the Tripyramids was. Now, i know.

I have a fear of heights, but I didn't think it was too bad. There were a few tricky spots where I had to use all six foot two of me to reach hand holds and figure out how to ascend, but all in all, I think the knife edge has more exposure and thus scares me more. Cathedral is steep, but at no...

A dozen deaths out of 4 million visitors to a rugged national park is not a high number. I am willing to wager that more than a dozen of those 4 million people died after visiting the park this year via car accidents, natural causes, etc... Deaths are likely up due to the river volumes being up...

It seems to me like a lot of people commenting on this may have never actually visited the falls. When you hike this trail, you most likely have climbed the Mist Trail that goes directly under the falls and climbs up next to the falls. These are not small falls, this is a big, impressive...