My husband, Dave, and I will be hiking Isolation sometime this winter (day hike). We have only the Bonds, Zealand, Twins, Owl's Head, and Jefferson left to climb. We also want to bushwhack but haven't done it there either. Waiting for reasonable temperatures and lengthier days, and I wonder if the river crossing is difficult until more freezing - someone just posted slipping off rocks into open water. We climbed Monroe on Christmas via the Edmands Path - the cloud that had blanketed the range lifted on our return over Franklin and we got expansive views!
Carol