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Thanks, I appreciate the note! It was a great Winter for sure!

3-17-13 Even I wasn't sure if I could do it, 35 peaks in a week and a half to finish up a single season NEHH-W list. But after a 6 pack success I left Moosilauke for the finish so I could get some Dartmouth friends to join me for a leisurely afternoon hike up Moosilauke. We started up pretty...

3-16-13 After a nice wakeup from Border Patrol at 5:45 am Tom and I broke down camp and did the 8+ mile sled pull back to the car so we could run up to Snow Mtn. Snowshowers hit the area overnight and the road wasn't plowed out but had been driven. Thankfully we were able to park right at mile...

3-15-13 Tom and I camped out at a pretty nice spot across the last bridge over the Cupsuptic River (fyi did not look drivable in summer as there were large gaps in it) coming over from Cupsuptic Pond Rd (from our car our route was Burnt Mtn Rd, Big Canyon Rd, Megantic Rd, Cupsuptic Pond Rd...

3-14-13 We drove in with 4WD up Morton Cutoff, Burnt Mtn Rd, and the plowing ended at E Branch Rd (North) just SW of Snow Mtn. We thought we would have been able to drive further north initially so we made an on the fly decision to do Snow from the South instead of the North. Followed E Branch...

3-13-13 Old Speck: Headed up from Grafton Notch in snowshoes. Wet mushy snow below 2500 ft but above that it was all super firm frozen wet snow. I kept the snowshoes on until the summit but probably could have ascended in microspikes. The latch on the door at the top of the firetower was...

3-12-13 Dicey Mill/Blueberry Ledge I took Dicey Mill up in the pouring rain and the snowshoe track was consolidating a little bit under my weight but held up pretty well. The steeps below the Passaconaway summit were rock hard even in the rain so I have no doubt they'll be bony once all this...

3-11-13 Carrigain First day of the year hiking in shorts and a t-shirt (started at noon on the sun-baked sauna that is Sawyer River Rd). Wore microspikes the whole way. Snow a bit mushy on the road but nice once I got into the woods. The couple of sunny spots on the trail high up on the...

A 'full' Franconia Ridge hike in Winter is always a fun one especially on a day like we had yesterday. I like the video too, pretty neat. I wish it wasn't so darn windy to start so we could have enjoyed the sunrise. Looking forward to getting together on a hike again sometime in the near...

Huge congrats. Just awesome.

:*( man that water would have been nice! I had some gatoraid slushies on the final segments of the loop so it could have been worse. Glad it all worked out for us and thanks for fixing my mistakes on S Twin to Guyot, was much faster yesterday than a few days back. Congrats on the solo winter...

3-10-13 The river crossing is still rock solid. There's a bit of ice down low and overall the snowshoe track is very firm. We probably should have used microspikes but my tired legs wanted the heel lift on my snowshoes. Beautiful day out on the ledges. Parking lot was very icy, my 2WD was...

3-9-13 1 day solo pemi loop: flume, liberty, lincoln, lafayette, garfield, galehead, s twin, w bond, bond, bondcliff Hit the trail at 3:40 am behind 2 others in our group and headed up Osseo. Although microspikes would be fine on lincoln woods I opted for snowshoes until crossing back over by...

3-8-13 cannon/ne cannonball I took hi cannon up, no sign of any new snow but above the ladders it was a bit drifted in. Overcast skies at the summit but was the first time the summits have been cloud free in a few weeks it seems. There were 3 crawl unders on hi cannon and one fresh blowdown just...

Unless a group goes in the few days before you guys do I'd anticipate the worst case scenario that most people run into--waist+ deep powder heading up North Brother. If you're only going for N Brother then even in those conditions a strong and motivated group of 2 should be able to muscle it...

3-7-13 Spotted a car by Waumbek and got a nice gentleman's start up York Pond (thanks Tom for being flexible about start time after a couple nights in a row getting in late!). Bryan's tracks from last week were visible but nearly fully blown in to Willard Notch. Above that we only rarely saw...

3-6-13 Parked at the end of Little River Rd but made the mistake of taking the snowmobile path to Haystack Rd which I used earlier this winter for PAtN. The snowshoe track takes a sharp left immediately over the bridge and comes out right at the bridge by the trailhead. North Twin Trail was...

3-5-13 Owl's Head: Barebooted all the way to the base of the Brutus Whack. With the apparent high volume of snowshoers recently and the freeze/thaw cycles the track is super firm down low. Some of the mudpits are beginning to open and all crossings are bridged. The last crossing looked and...

Thanks everyone, I appreciate the kind words. I was just happy to be there taking in the scenery on such a perfect winter day up there! Pat

3-3-13 Parked at the Abol Bridge parking area and found the trail to the tote road to be very well packed by skiiers and snowmobiles. It was nice and firm after a solid warmup the day before followed by a freeze overnight so it was nice and firm in snowshoes. The tote road was a snowmobile...