Jay H
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A while ago, Snickers, Zero-G, Doodles, and I hiked Mansfield via the Haselton trail and then down the LT to Rt 100 on the ski slope side of Mt Mansfield. Sunday, I and a friend of Maria's hiked Mansfield via Underhill State Park, which is on the west side of the Mtn, so I figured this would be something different and I'd get to hike/redline the trails on the other side and also hike the Canyon trail which I've heard much about.
While my friend had to turn around due to time constraints, we went up the Halfway House trail with the intention for me to continue and go down via Sunset Ridge trail. I hiked up to the Canyon North trail which parallels the LT but stays down off the ridge and offers a really cool hike, not really sidehilling, but some nice cool rock scrambles and crevasse hiking and one really nice viewpoint. I hiked the Canyon North trail up to the Subway, and bailed due to the rain that kind of enveloped the summit and donned rain gear. I went the .2 miles up to the ridge and ran up to the Chin.
Because of the wind and the driving drizzle, I thought I'd run over to the summit building by the Nose to eat lunch and talked to two GMC volunteers (I think) for a bit while eating my sandwich and decided to go down to the Forehead and down via the Maple Ridge trail, thinking it might be sheltered from the wind a little more than the Sunset Ridge.
Going down was very slick, slippery rocks but with the foot traffic, (passed a group of 5 going down), not seriously slick but annoyingly so. There's also one leap of faith on a 2 ft gap close to the top of the trail.... Made it to the road and hiked out back to my car, not taking any pictures from the Maple Ridge cause it would of all been white...
Some pictures, mostly all of the way up:
http://picasaweb.google.com/cycleslugyahoo/MtMansfield09_13_2009
Jay
While my friend had to turn around due to time constraints, we went up the Halfway House trail with the intention for me to continue and go down via Sunset Ridge trail. I hiked up to the Canyon North trail which parallels the LT but stays down off the ridge and offers a really cool hike, not really sidehilling, but some nice cool rock scrambles and crevasse hiking and one really nice viewpoint. I hiked the Canyon North trail up to the Subway, and bailed due to the rain that kind of enveloped the summit and donned rain gear. I went the .2 miles up to the ridge and ran up to the Chin.
Because of the wind and the driving drizzle, I thought I'd run over to the summit building by the Nose to eat lunch and talked to two GMC volunteers (I think) for a bit while eating my sandwich and decided to go down to the Forehead and down via the Maple Ridge trail, thinking it might be sheltered from the wind a little more than the Sunset Ridge.
Going down was very slick, slippery rocks but with the foot traffic, (passed a group of 5 going down), not seriously slick but annoyingly so. There's also one leap of faith on a 2 ft gap close to the top of the trail.... Made it to the road and hiked out back to my car, not taking any pictures from the Maple Ridge cause it would of all been white...
Some pictures, mostly all of the way up:
http://picasaweb.google.com/cycleslugyahoo/MtMansfield09_13_2009
Jay
