giggy
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Ok - I guess there is a demand on this - got some Pm's and emails asking how this went.
All week, the weather was looking perfect for a pemi loop - canadian high pressue coming through friday leaving clear but cool sunny weather for the pemi. Friday, the weather changed a bit, but still looked good - We had about 10 people trying it - but by no means was this an organized event - it was a "hike your own hike" day and all gather for food and beer after at a campsite after.
participants - me,arm,meb,skimom,marchowes,gillian,woody,mats,cbcbd,little sister,jen,adamiata and mountaingirl. jasonpatrick joined as well - which I didn't even know until we got on top bondcliff!
We all started around 3:30 am and before we knew it we were on bondcliff just after sunrise, the nice thing about starting this early is the wildlife, fox, moose, etc.. were all seen. It was a bit windy and socked in, but still dry - and we all thought this would blow over shortly and the sun would peek out.
That never happened - we trudged our way over bond and west bond and past guyot whre the winds really picked up and was tossing me around - and then it started pouring near south twin and from here to the hut, motivation was starting the dwindle. It was probably around 45 degrees, wet and a decent breeze to really chill the body down. We all got to galehead and as the hikers filtered in, everyone was saying the same thing - this wasn't the day for a pemi loop.
Little sister had hiked up via gale river with the intention of hiking from there out via franconia ridge, so some hikers decided to head down that to the car.
With it being officially over - Mats tapped the mini keg of beer at galehead and the look on the folks at the hut was pretty priceless. Its about 10am, a slew of wet hikers come in on a loop attempt and they have a keg of beer with them.
all in good fun.
So - we each had a small amount of beer for the heck of it and some went down gale river and Adam, Doug, Mats, Mountain Girl and I went down twin brook and franconia brook and within 30 minutes we were below the cloud deck and sun was shining and pretty much a different world than above 3800 feet.
We all felt great at the hut, just didn't think it was smart to continue on wet like we were, and the forecast was rain on the summits all day with high winds. We all knew the ridge from north laff to little haystack would have been nasty. Both Sir Edmund and Mtnpa confirmed this as they went up to meet us.
Had we had better conditions, this entire group would have finished the loop, no doubt in my mind.
you take what you can get, and the weekend was fun for sure.
We were all awoken friday night from the strange sounds of the famed humpbeast from the campsite next to ours.
I really want to say a special thanks to mtnmama, mtnpa, and hikeramiga for the food that night - the pizza, the chili, etc.. that was amazing. and of course mats for the keg!
mats had some real nasty potion called swedish bitter - YUK!!!!
and arm did amazing stuff with his grill
thanks to all for making it a fun couple of days.
All week, the weather was looking perfect for a pemi loop - canadian high pressue coming through friday leaving clear but cool sunny weather for the pemi. Friday, the weather changed a bit, but still looked good - We had about 10 people trying it - but by no means was this an organized event - it was a "hike your own hike" day and all gather for food and beer after at a campsite after.
participants - me,arm,meb,skimom,marchowes,gillian,woody,mats,cbcbd,little sister,jen,adamiata and mountaingirl. jasonpatrick joined as well - which I didn't even know until we got on top bondcliff!
We all started around 3:30 am and before we knew it we were on bondcliff just after sunrise, the nice thing about starting this early is the wildlife, fox, moose, etc.. were all seen. It was a bit windy and socked in, but still dry - and we all thought this would blow over shortly and the sun would peek out.
That never happened - we trudged our way over bond and west bond and past guyot whre the winds really picked up and was tossing me around - and then it started pouring near south twin and from here to the hut, motivation was starting the dwindle. It was probably around 45 degrees, wet and a decent breeze to really chill the body down. We all got to galehead and as the hikers filtered in, everyone was saying the same thing - this wasn't the day for a pemi loop.
Little sister had hiked up via gale river with the intention of hiking from there out via franconia ridge, so some hikers decided to head down that to the car.
With it being officially over - Mats tapped the mini keg of beer at galehead and the look on the folks at the hut was pretty priceless. Its about 10am, a slew of wet hikers come in on a loop attempt and they have a keg of beer with them.
all in good fun. So - we each had a small amount of beer for the heck of it and some went down gale river and Adam, Doug, Mats, Mountain Girl and I went down twin brook and franconia brook and within 30 minutes we were below the cloud deck and sun was shining and pretty much a different world than above 3800 feet.
We all felt great at the hut, just didn't think it was smart to continue on wet like we were, and the forecast was rain on the summits all day with high winds. We all knew the ridge from north laff to little haystack would have been nasty. Both Sir Edmund and Mtnpa confirmed this as they went up to meet us.
Had we had better conditions, this entire group would have finished the loop, no doubt in my mind.
you take what you can get, and the weekend was fun for sure.
We were all awoken friday night from the strange sounds of the famed humpbeast from the campsite next to ours.
I really want to say a special thanks to mtnmama, mtnpa, and hikeramiga for the food that night - the pizza, the chili, etc.. that was amazing. and of course mats for the keg!
mats had some real nasty potion called swedish bitter - YUK!!!!
and arm did amazing stuff with his grill
thanks to all for making it a fun couple of days.
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