dr_wu002
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I should start off by saying that I'm developing a bit of a reputation for being unreliable, fussy and indecisive regarding trip planning, cancellations etc. I apologize to anyone that I've aggravated lately -- I've been dealing with a number of distracting personal issues as of late which have made me, to put it bluntly, flaky. Hopefully I'll screw my head on before it simply floats off my shoulders like a kiddie balloon (I wouldn't be LNT!)
Anyway, I'm going to forgo a trip to Goose Eye and stick with the Moats for Saturday which is what I had previously planned on. Meet @ Northeastern TH (Diana's Bath, I believe) @ 7:30am on Saturday. I will level with people: I often times come up with ambitious trip plans but they generally are no more than an exciting guideline in my head. I rarely ever do the trip that I have planned -- sometimes it's more, sometimes it's less. When hiking solo (as I used to always do) this was easy but now that it involves people it's become more difficult to continuously float wherever the wind blows me!
I would like to go in at Diana's Bath to the Attitash Trail and head towards Big Attitash Mtn (West Moat). At the junction with the Moat Mountain Trail, the Attitash Trail supposedly is difficult to follow but I think my route finding skills will suffice to get us to Big Attitash. From there, I'd like to bushwhack to North Moat. According to DMS, the woods are fairly open on the Big Attash side but a little denser on the North Moat side. Shouldn't be too bad -- it should be less than a mile to North Moat and I'd actually consider angling North of the Summit, picking up the trail a few 1/10's away. From there, explore the open ridges of North, Middle and South Moat as well as Red Ridge before heading out. This trip is about 18 miles.
For the most part I'm not fussy about wanting to make this summit or that summit -- I'm not a peak bagger or a list bagger necessarily but I'd rather debate the trip itinerary while on the trip and not here because it's only stresses me out constantly figuring out which route we should/should not do. Who cares? Just let's show up and walk into the woods. The Big Attitash Mtn part of it might be for another day -- it might be worthwile just exploring all the wonderful open areas of Moat and then if there's time heading over to Big Attitash or something like that.
Sorry for the long and overblown post but I felt like I needed to clear the air a bit about my recent flakiness as well as my idea of trip planning. So again, if anyone is interested: Moats, exploring, Sat 7:30am @ Diana's Bath TH. There should be some nice foliage views by now!!!
-Dr. Wu
Anyway, I'm going to forgo a trip to Goose Eye and stick with the Moats for Saturday which is what I had previously planned on. Meet @ Northeastern TH (Diana's Bath, I believe) @ 7:30am on Saturday. I will level with people: I often times come up with ambitious trip plans but they generally are no more than an exciting guideline in my head. I rarely ever do the trip that I have planned -- sometimes it's more, sometimes it's less. When hiking solo (as I used to always do) this was easy but now that it involves people it's become more difficult to continuously float wherever the wind blows me!
I would like to go in at Diana's Bath to the Attitash Trail and head towards Big Attitash Mtn (West Moat). At the junction with the Moat Mountain Trail, the Attitash Trail supposedly is difficult to follow but I think my route finding skills will suffice to get us to Big Attitash. From there, I'd like to bushwhack to North Moat. According to DMS, the woods are fairly open on the Big Attash side but a little denser on the North Moat side. Shouldn't be too bad -- it should be less than a mile to North Moat and I'd actually consider angling North of the Summit, picking up the trail a few 1/10's away. From there, explore the open ridges of North, Middle and South Moat as well as Red Ridge before heading out. This trip is about 18 miles.
For the most part I'm not fussy about wanting to make this summit or that summit -- I'm not a peak bagger or a list bagger necessarily but I'd rather debate the trip itinerary while on the trip and not here because it's only stresses me out constantly figuring out which route we should/should not do. Who cares? Just let's show up and walk into the woods. The Big Attitash Mtn part of it might be for another day -- it might be worthwile just exploring all the wonderful open areas of Moat and then if there's time heading over to Big Attitash or something like that.
Sorry for the long and overblown post but I felt like I needed to clear the air a bit about my recent flakiness as well as my idea of trip planning. So again, if anyone is interested: Moats, exploring, Sat 7:30am @ Diana's Bath TH. There should be some nice foliage views by now!!!
-Dr. Wu
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