Tom Rankin
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We met WW and Delilah, a new contender for best hiking dog ever, at the Hairpin turn and started up the packed down trail around 9:00 on Monday. The shock of the Superbowl outcome seemingly had worn off of Laurie and she was now able to move and function! 
Having done Moriah the previous day, we knew the trails would be hard packed, so we just brought micro-spikes. This turned out to be a great choice, aside from heel-lifters.
We made it to the junction in a little less than 2 hours. Minor stream crossing issues, but no one fell in. After a gear/bio break, we opted to head DOWN to the brook and crossed over for the fun to really begin! The trail is a steep sucker! It rises about 1200' in .6 miles! We took it slowly, seemingly, but we were at the top in almost exactly an hour. The clouds were high enough that we had great views. It was breezy, but no where near oppressive. The temps were around 20.
The walk over to South was easy enough, but the path had been blown in by the breeze. It was covered with up to 6" of powder in places, and a few drifts were even higher. Laurie broke trail like a champ!
When we arrived at the top, a Gray Jay was waiting, but flew off, perhaps at the site of the dog? Never seen one there before... ??
We admired the other view point, which was out of the wind, and then made a quick dash/tumble/butt slide down to the junction, in about 18 minutes! The walk out took considerably longer, but the whole hike was done in less than 6 hours. Unfortunately, the drive home was also about that long! We met up with with Pamola for dinner, and exchanged news, some good (a new brewpub is open in Vermont) , some bad (but The Shed is closed! )
36 down, 12 to go!
Pics as time allows...
Having done Moriah the previous day, we knew the trails would be hard packed, so we just brought micro-spikes. This turned out to be a great choice, aside from heel-lifters.
We made it to the junction in a little less than 2 hours. Minor stream crossing issues, but no one fell in. After a gear/bio break, we opted to head DOWN to the brook and crossed over for the fun to really begin! The trail is a steep sucker! It rises about 1200' in .6 miles!
We took it slowly, seemingly, but we were at the top in almost exactly an hour. The clouds were high enough that we had great views. It was breezy, but no where near oppressive. The temps were around 20. The walk over to South was easy enough, but the path had been blown in by the breeze. It was covered with up to 6" of powder in places, and a few drifts were even higher. Laurie broke trail like a champ!
When we arrived at the top, a Gray Jay was waiting, but flew off, perhaps at the site of the dog? Never seen one there before... ??
We admired the other view point, which was out of the wind, and then made a quick dash/tumble/butt slide down to the junction, in about 18 minutes!
The walk out took considerably longer, but the whole hike was done in less than 6 hours. Unfortunately, the drive home was also about that long! We met up with with Pamola for dinner, and exchanged news, some good (a new brewpub is open in Vermont) , some bad (but The Shed is closed! )36 down, 12 to go!
Pics as time allows...
