donna
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Saturday, February 13th, 7 friends start their day at the AT Café for breakfast, Frodo, arm, Christine, Sean, Mike, Liza and donna. We have an easy 6 mile ski into Nesowadnehunk Bunkhouse. Frodo leads the route finding as we break trail all the way. The day is beautiful, sunny and everyone is feeling good. We set up camp and enjoy an amazing amount of delicious homemade food.
On Sunday, Valentine’s Day, we’re up early and heading to the Marston trail for our “easy” summit to Coe. We break trail all the way to the Coe Slide junction. Frodo, Liza, Mike and donna continue for the Peak. We are the first this winter to head to the summit of Coe. The trail was very difficult to follow, very deep snow, dangerous water crossings and Frodo fell into the deepest spruce trap I’ve ever seen. I wish I could have snapped a photo while he was still in the trap, but thought his life was more important – so I only got a few shots after the fact.
The hike up was exhausting. We were all very excited to be at the slide. We thought, “no more deep snow plowing”…wrong, as we continued up the slide we ran into one step forward and 5 slides backwards. There was nothing to hold on to and sometimes we had to crawl. I was ready to head back even though we were about 200 feet from the summit. It took 11 hours round trip. We went up and out using the same trail.
I’ve attempted Coe 3 other times in winter…there was always some reason why I couldn’t get that peak. I finally got it, but it was the hardest hike I’ve ever done. I’ll never forget this hike and I’m really happy I got it. People talk about this Spirit that owns Coe. If anyone knows about him, let me know what the story is. This Spirit wanted to give me some sort of message and I’m not sure what that message is. So, anyone who knows about him, please share the info.
This trip was “the best time in my whole life”. Thanks to arm for organizing everything and Frodo for getting me to Coe and Mike, Liza, Christine and Sean for the wonderful food, drinks, laughs and company. You guys are the best ever!
Here’s a few photos:
http://community.webshots.com/user/donnahiking
I hope others from this trip add to my TR.
On Sunday, Valentine’s Day, we’re up early and heading to the Marston trail for our “easy” summit to Coe. We break trail all the way to the Coe Slide junction. Frodo, Liza, Mike and donna continue for the Peak. We are the first this winter to head to the summit of Coe. The trail was very difficult to follow, very deep snow, dangerous water crossings and Frodo fell into the deepest spruce trap I’ve ever seen. I wish I could have snapped a photo while he was still in the trap, but thought his life was more important – so I only got a few shots after the fact.
The hike up was exhausting. We were all very excited to be at the slide. We thought, “no more deep snow plowing”…wrong, as we continued up the slide we ran into one step forward and 5 slides backwards. There was nothing to hold on to and sometimes we had to crawl. I was ready to head back even though we were about 200 feet from the summit. It took 11 hours round trip. We went up and out using the same trail.
I’ve attempted Coe 3 other times in winter…there was always some reason why I couldn’t get that peak. I finally got it, but it was the hardest hike I’ve ever done. I’ll never forget this hike and I’m really happy I got it. People talk about this Spirit that owns Coe. If anyone knows about him, let me know what the story is. This Spirit wanted to give me some sort of message and I’m not sure what that message is. So, anyone who knows about him, please share the info.
This trip was “the best time in my whole life”. Thanks to arm for organizing everything and Frodo for getting me to Coe and Mike, Liza, Christine and Sean for the wonderful food, drinks, laughs and company. You guys are the best ever!
Here’s a few photos:
http://community.webshots.com/user/donnahiking
I hope others from this trip add to my TR.
