Mt. Washington, NH 
December 12, 2009

Looking east at Wildcat from the Lion Head.

The red arrow indicates where we started.


Looking South(?) toward Boot Spur from the Lion Head.

Buddy happy to still have his fingers.

If you look close, you can almost see the smile under all Craig's gear.

The hike down was beautiful. We weren't hauling ass like we did to get to the top, so I took some time to take pictures. This is the main trail that goes from Pinkham Notch to the Hermit Lake shelters. It's wide so they can get equipment like snow cats back and forth for avalanche rescue/safety. It was too early in the season to have had any of that equipment up through there, so we were breaking more trail then climbers normally would.

This was a forest ranger/avalanche safety guy coming back from the Hermit Lake area. His dog is an avalanche rescue dog.

A shot of us at the bottom.

Self portrait group shot with Craig our instructor. We look like a bunch of giggling school girls.

For dinner we went to The Moat. Craig and I went for the full rack of ribs. I also had the Smutty Nose on tap. Mmmmmm.

Back at the motel it didn't take long for everyone to pass out that night.





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