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Couchsachraga and Panther
January 29th, 2011
Winter
Early Saturday morning met AdkJack and Ken at the Park and ride. We drove slowly up to the TH for the Santanonis . The rest of the group ended up being HOL, Jackson(DSettahr) and his friend Danie , Joe H and Mike (CommissionPoint). Signed in around 6:15am and made good time down the road in 2-3” of fresh snow by headlamps. Climb to the split of the New/Old trail was standard. Trail being fresh snow and hardpack under made good footing IMO. At this Point mike turned around and decided to just enjoy and look for animals for the day, sorry mike. Onward we continued to Times Square for a break and head to Couchy First.
Hol, Jackson and his friend was leading most of the day which I can’t thank them enough. Strong and fast. Trail over seemed just as good as the climb up to TS. Everyone was enjoying the wonderful day opening up with clearing skis which would disappear throughout the rest of the day and turn to light snow. Well after a long hard climb we all arrived at 12:00. I started to feel weak legs. Having to keep up with this group was keeping me on faster pace than normal maybe which I lacked to keep food in my belly regularly. After a break the long trip back. And finally back at herald square I find that the others had made the trip over to Panther already and Back!OMG. Here AdkJack,Joe and I decide we are only headed to Panther then down Panther Brook having our reasons each. The others headed to Santa..
A nice trip over to Panther which was the best views all day. Looking into the valleys and over to Santanoni was just amazing. Snow encrusted tree tops where beautiful. Number 20 for winter for me.. From here a blast down Panther Brook and back to the cars. AdkJack and Joe blew my doors in at Warp speed. At the Road I was able to put my mind to it as I was Beat from today but they gave me something to work for so I picked up the pace, everything I had and caught up to them by the time we reached the cars around 5:15pm. A change of clothes and even got in a Nap before the others returned at 6:15pm having had to come back the same way not finding the New/Old trail broken out.
Another Great day weather wise and meeting new faces. Thanks to you all, I couldn’t have done it without you. I walked away 1 short with a smile on my face though…
January 29th, 2011
Winter
Early Saturday morning met AdkJack and Ken at the Park and ride. We drove slowly up to the TH for the Santanonis . The rest of the group ended up being HOL, Jackson(DSettahr) and his friend Danie , Joe H and Mike (CommissionPoint). Signed in around 6:15am and made good time down the road in 2-3” of fresh snow by headlamps. Climb to the split of the New/Old trail was standard. Trail being fresh snow and hardpack under made good footing IMO. At this Point mike turned around and decided to just enjoy and look for animals for the day, sorry mike. Onward we continued to Times Square for a break and head to Couchy First.
Hol, Jackson and his friend was leading most of the day which I can’t thank them enough. Strong and fast. Trail over seemed just as good as the climb up to TS. Everyone was enjoying the wonderful day opening up with clearing skis which would disappear throughout the rest of the day and turn to light snow. Well after a long hard climb we all arrived at 12:00. I started to feel weak legs. Having to keep up with this group was keeping me on faster pace than normal maybe which I lacked to keep food in my belly regularly. After a break the long trip back. And finally back at herald square I find that the others had made the trip over to Panther already and Back!OMG. Here AdkJack,Joe and I decide we are only headed to Panther then down Panther Brook having our reasons each. The others headed to Santa..
A nice trip over to Panther which was the best views all day. Looking into the valleys and over to Santanoni was just amazing. Snow encrusted tree tops where beautiful. Number 20 for winter for me.. From here a blast down Panther Brook and back to the cars. AdkJack and Joe blew my doors in at Warp speed. At the Road I was able to put my mind to it as I was Beat from today but they gave me something to work for so I picked up the pace, everything I had and caught up to them by the time we reached the cars around 5:15pm. A change of clothes and even got in a Nap before the others returned at 6:15pm having had to come back the same way not finding the New/Old trail broken out.
Another Great day weather wise and meeting new faces. Thanks to you all, I couldn’t have done it without you. I walked away 1 short with a smile on my face though…
