Double Bow
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So to celebrate my birthday, I decided to head out and hit a whole mess o' 4Ks. I decided I'd even book a hut stay on my birthday to go ultra-posh.
On the 18th, I had a hard time gettin' out of Dodge. When I finally got to the Basin, I realized that it would be too wet to go up Flume Slide and too late to head up Liberty Spring and hit Flume and still make dinner at Greenleaf. So, I went up to the ridge, dropped my pack and then hitting treeline dropped my poles, on my way up to Liberty in the thunderstorm. At one point I lost my balance and fell jamming and cutting a couple of fingers.
Heading over toward Little Haystack after tagging the summit, I saw a couple of girls I had seen on Madison the previous weekend and chatted for a bit. On LH, I met an ATer named Padre. Sure enough, he was/is a preist. We hiked and chatted together all the way to Lafayette. Then he headed off toward Galehead and I went down toward Greenleaf. Soon hale was pounding me and I was scrambling to get me gear out of my pack. With my raincoat and packcover on, I continued down throwing my poles ahead of me. With the lightening crashing directly over my head, I opted to leave my poles where they were and to scamper on down the trail.
I finally reached the hut and spent it peaceably enough despite the screaming kids and the subpar dinner (Mac & cheese... for THAT price?!?). The next morning I climbed 500' to get my poles and then doubled back to the hut for my pack before continuing down. Reaching the road, I tried to dry some gear with the hand driers at Cannon's base before heading up, but it was little use. After hitting the summit of Cannon I grabbed a burger and a beer before setting back off againat 3:30pm. Hours later I reached Kinsman Pond Shelter and dropped my pack before dashing out and back to hit North and South Kinsman. As I made it back to the shelter just before total darkness, I thought of a tem for those of us obcessed with "The Grid". My term? Gridiots. Pass it on. I got to the hut around 11 o'clock and the hut croo persueded me to spend the night hence I didn't make it to the party.
The next morning I had planned to hit the Carters, yet getting down I changed my plan and kept it short just doing Waumbek. Still, it was enough and I was happy to check into Hiker's and then spend the night watching the cartoons on FOX and drinking beers.
On Monday, I headed up Avalon and on to Field which was my 300th 4K, a couple after hitting my 50th of the year. I noticed that at least 10 trees were cut expanding the view... The weather stayed dry until hitting the summit area up Tom and then we got poured on the entire way down.
It was a wet weekend, but definitely a fun one!
On the 18th, I had a hard time gettin' out of Dodge. When I finally got to the Basin, I realized that it would be too wet to go up Flume Slide and too late to head up Liberty Spring and hit Flume and still make dinner at Greenleaf. So, I went up to the ridge, dropped my pack and then hitting treeline dropped my poles, on my way up to Liberty in the thunderstorm. At one point I lost my balance and fell jamming and cutting a couple of fingers.
Heading over toward Little Haystack after tagging the summit, I saw a couple of girls I had seen on Madison the previous weekend and chatted for a bit. On LH, I met an ATer named Padre. Sure enough, he was/is a preist. We hiked and chatted together all the way to Lafayette. Then he headed off toward Galehead and I went down toward Greenleaf. Soon hale was pounding me and I was scrambling to get me gear out of my pack. With my raincoat and packcover on, I continued down throwing my poles ahead of me. With the lightening crashing directly over my head, I opted to leave my poles where they were and to scamper on down the trail.
I finally reached the hut and spent it peaceably enough despite the screaming kids and the subpar dinner (Mac & cheese... for THAT price?!?). The next morning I climbed 500' to get my poles and then doubled back to the hut for my pack before continuing down. Reaching the road, I tried to dry some gear with the hand driers at Cannon's base before heading up, but it was little use. After hitting the summit of Cannon I grabbed a burger and a beer before setting back off againat 3:30pm. Hours later I reached Kinsman Pond Shelter and dropped my pack before dashing out and back to hit North and South Kinsman. As I made it back to the shelter just before total darkness, I thought of a tem for those of us obcessed with "The Grid". My term? Gridiots. Pass it on. I got to the hut around 11 o'clock and the hut croo persueded me to spend the night hence I didn't make it to the party.
The next morning I had planned to hit the Carters, yet getting down I changed my plan and kept it short just doing Waumbek. Still, it was enough and I was happy to check into Hiker's and then spend the night watching the cartoons on FOX and drinking beers.
On Monday, I headed up Avalon and on to Field which was my 300th 4K, a couple after hitting my 50th of the year. I noticed that at least 10 trees were cut expanding the view... The weather stayed dry until hitting the summit area up Tom and then we got poured on the entire way down.
It was a wet weekend, but definitely a fun one!