Tom Rankin
Well-known member
No, not the trouble where you might not watch where you are going and pitch off a steep cliff, but that is a real possibility. The trouble is that you take about 10 steps, and there is another FREAKING VIEW! 
And it's always slightly different. We started out from the Cascade PA, and headed up. Then down, then up, then down, then up, then.... Yes, that's another minor problem with this peak. There are a TON of puds. I think I counted 5 or 6 bumps that are within 50' of the highest elevation along the way. This is a 4.5 mile hike, and it took 6 hours! We just had to keep stopping and take a few more pictures, or soak in the views. They just keep changing, and of course, like many mountains, the higher you get, the more you can see.
And one of the most amazing parts of Pitchoff is not the views to distant peaks, but the astonishing abundance of Trillium. Right off the bat, you see a few every 50 feet or so. But there is a place on the 'back side' of the mountain, the side that faces Whiteface, where we saw several at once. Laurie stopped to take a picture of a clump of 14 flowers. But a few feet later, there is a clump of about 100!
The conditions were great, nice breezes, alternating clouds and sun, almost no bugs, trail very dry for the most part, and no snow to be seen, except up on the flanks of Marcy. There are a lot of very steep but usually short sections of this trail. Some of them were wet. But we all made it w/o any difficulty.
More pics:
The Big boys:
The cascade on Cascade
Name those mountains (looking West)
Hurricane, with Vermont beyond.
Old TR, which sounds a lot like this one, because it was 3 years to the day before this one. (Pics are no longer available).
And it's always slightly different. We started out from the Cascade PA, and headed up. Then down, then up, then down, then up, then.... Yes, that's another minor problem with this peak. There are a TON of puds. I think I counted 5 or 6 bumps that are within 50' of the highest elevation along the way. This is a 4.5 mile hike, and it took 6 hours! We just had to keep stopping and take a few more pictures, or soak in the views. They just keep changing, and of course, like many mountains, the higher you get, the more you can see.And one of the most amazing parts of Pitchoff is not the views to distant peaks, but the astonishing abundance of Trillium. Right off the bat, you see a few every 50 feet or so. But there is a place on the 'back side' of the mountain, the side that faces Whiteface, where we saw several at once. Laurie stopped to take a picture of a clump of 14 flowers. But a few feet later, there is a clump of about 100!
The conditions were great, nice breezes, alternating clouds and sun, almost no bugs, trail very dry for the most part, and no snow to be seen, except up on the flanks of Marcy. There are a lot of very steep but usually short sections of this trail. Some of them were wet. But we all made it w/o any difficulty.
More pics:
The Big boys:
The cascade on Cascade
Name those mountains (looking West)
Hurricane, with Vermont beyond.
Old TR, which sounds a lot like this one, because it was 3 years to the day before this one. (Pics are no longer available).
