Hitchcock Flume

[el-bagr]

Who here has found Hitchcock Flume, just off the top of the Mt Willard trail? A most enigmatic crevice. As few web mentions as it gets, I'd wager it gets even fewer visitors.

 

[skiguy]

Easiest to find in Winter after it has been climbed from the bottom and they have continued up through the woods intercepting the trail. Or you could always climb it from the bottom yourself Actually I'm surprised you have not already skied it definitely a very kool spot....figuratively and literally in Winter.

 

[elvios lincoln]

I have visited it in summer.

It is pretty easy to find off the Mt Willard Trail.

 

[Bob Kittredge]

I'd forgotten all about it. I must have done it one summer about ten years ago. Don't remember being terribly impressed.

 

[RoySwkr]

Who here has found Hitchcock Flume, just off the top of the Mt Willard trail?

Been there a couple times, from the top only

Even took a visitor from Australia there

 

[Woody]

It's a neat NEI 2 ice climb in the winter. I climbed it a couple of years ago.

 

[el-bagr]

I'd no longer rate it as "easy to find" -- quite a few blowdowns on the old trail, and a few sections where you start wondering what's up. And yet, at the top, the gravel beginning of the spur almost looks more legit than the real path to the ledges.

Pretty cool looking across at Silver Cascade -- you can see how they share a geological history. Speaking of which, skiers -- in the Meatheads' film this year, two of them skied Silver Cascade.

 

[Hampshire]

Here is a shot from last winter looking down from the first belay.

 

[BlackBuffalo]

I was able to Google it and a nice map came up how to get to it.
http://www.hikenewengland.com/Willard980503.html