Mt. Washington Tease

Here's a tease.

I'm too tired and my fingers still hurt too much to type too much.

It was a pretty intense trip. Buddy and Craig did very well considering their lack of experience.

We made it a lot farther then I expected considering the conditions.

This shot was taken at the point we decided to turn around. We were at roughly 5,200ft. at 1pm. It took us nearly five hours to get there (that's 3 miles and 3,000 vertical ft.). Average successful summit trip on a good day takes 5 hours. The temp was 5°F. There were wind gusts upwards of 50mph. There was 1,000ft of elevation left in a little under a mile to make the summit. Considering it took us an hour to make 1,000ft of elevation gain in a mile at the bottom in much better conditions, we decided to turn back. If we had continued to the summit, we would have been lucky to make it back to treeline before dark. The steepest part of the trail was just below treeline.

It was too much snow and too much wind to move any faster.

- b