High Peaks, Adirondacks
March 3 - 5, 2007 
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I tried taking a picture of the thermometer in the tent, but it's mirrored. If you look close, it looks like it was 45 degrees in the tent. My favorite is the logo on the zipper pull - "Never Stop Exploring".


The tent and snow in the morning when we got up. 


Our backpacks covered in snow.


Snowshoes.


Me up and making water in the snow.

 
Jeff called me the bagel bandit. I guess it was the expression on my face.


This one he calls "Praying to the hot chocolate gods." The snow was relentless that morning. It was making us both wet and cold. Our
jackets aren't as waterproof as we would like. Nor do they breath as well as they should. If you not getting soaked from the outside, your
sweating and soaking yourself from the inside. See the tent already?


The solution to our jacket conundrum is Gore-Tex XCR. We both have pants made out of this stuff. See me sitting in the above picture? My
knees are completely dry. Same goes for my thigh where the snow is accumulating. Can't say the same for my shoulders and back. They
were soaked and cold. The other interesting point about this picutre are the boots. Notice no snowshoes?. After packing the snow down the
night before and letting it freeze over night, the snow becomes hard enough for us to walk around without snowshoes and without
"post-holing" - faling through up to your knees or worse.


Once breakfast was out of the way, we headed out for the days hike. The plan was to hike through Avalanche pass, to Avalanche Lake and
beyond to Lake Colden. Along the way we found these berries. It snows so much and so fast, it's able to pile up on the berry clumps.


Here's Avalanche Pass. In 1999 when Hurricane Floyd hit, it washed the entire hillside into the valley. For reference, the snow is about eye
level here.
 
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