marty
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Trail conditions - 1 to 4 inches of soft snow over a consolidated, icy crust. The snow made the traction very good. Bare booted to Lonesome Lake Hut and to about 1/2 mile from Coppermine Col. Switched to crampons and wore them the rest of the hike.
Special Equipment Required - warm clothing and face protection essential. Crampons were very helpful for ascending upper part of Lonesome Lake, for summit ascent/descent on Kinsman Ridge Trail and for descent on LLT.
Comments - very cold and quite windy around Lafayette Place and doing the loop around Lonesome Lake. Temp was 3 degrees F at parking lot and -5 degrees F at Lonesome Lake. Views were magnificent of Franconia Ridge, Cannon and Kinsman Ridge, although clouds did roll in from time to time. We met our friend Michael J at the Mountain Wanderer and had lunch with him at Woodstock Station.
This was a fabulous day all around. Great to hike again with my pal Sapblatt.
Marty and Sapblatt
Special Equipment Required - warm clothing and face protection essential. Crampons were very helpful for ascending upper part of Lonesome Lake, for summit ascent/descent on Kinsman Ridge Trail and for descent on LLT.
Comments - very cold and quite windy around Lafayette Place and doing the loop around Lonesome Lake. Temp was 3 degrees F at parking lot and -5 degrees F at Lonesome Lake. Views were magnificent of Franconia Ridge, Cannon and Kinsman Ridge, although clouds did roll in from time to time. We met our friend Michael J at the Mountain Wanderer and had lunch with him at Woodstock Station.
This was a fabulous day all around. Great to hike again with my pal Sapblatt.Marty and Sapblatt
