Day-after-Thanksgiving Hike

[CanDo]

A little past midnight I gave my friend a call to see if he was up for a hike the next morning. We left at seven and what a trip it was.

Mt. Lafayette in NH, 5,260 feet, 8 miles round trip, 3000' elevation gain

First half of the trip, everything was covered in a massive cloud. Three times while above the treeline, the sun began to break through the clouds for about ten to twenty seconds at a time. By the time we were halfway down, the fog had lifted a lot and we got some great views. It was a little below twenty degrees and just about perfect weather. We drove up in a bit of snowstorm and it was snowing lightly for the first couple of hours of the hike.

Knives that accompanied me were the BRKT Aurora and Leatherman Wave.

Here are some shots:

 

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[coaldigger]

Looks too cold for me Nice pics :thumbup:

 

[mtnfolk mike]

wow.. awesome pics man... looks waaaay too cold for my california butt....

 

[baldtaco-II]

I'd like some of that right now.

 

[tonym]

I am only getting red x's

 

[cmdr249]

I am only getting red x's

I'm only getting part of the pictures sometimes myself. Even after clearing cookies and forcing page reload.

I'm using FireFox and if I go into the "View Page Info" - Media tab - off the right click I can see that most of the images show up as grey address lines on the images I can't see compared to the black address lines for the ones I can see. If I go over and back on the lines in the code I can get the images to show in the pop-up page info window but I can't get them to load back into the Bladeforums.com page.

I've tried both FireFox and IE.

Anyway, pictures (with all the effort) are awesome looking - lots of snow. Looks cold but fun.

I'd be curious to hear details on gear taken in and clothing choices for that hike.

 

[Mentor]

I'm getting mostly little blue 'x' boxes, but based on the pictures that come through, it looks like a great trip. I love this kind of terrain and weather, especially the snow-fog combination.

Thanks for the report,

- Mike

 

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Photos are fixed

cmdr, I have a gear list, if you give me some time, I can post a pretty thorough list of what I brought.

 

[Cpl Punishment]

Man, New Hampshire is so beautiful. Views like that are why I miss New England. I really like the pics with heavy fog -- looks like you're standing on the edge of nowhere.

 

[orrey45]

Cool pics but that looks darn cold.

 

[DOC-CANADA]

Hey CanDo,

Your pictures are excellent and I copied quite a few for my winter scenery folder. What a beautiful hike that was. I envy you that - we have zilch snow right now. I'm not asking for much, 3 ft. maybe............

Anyway, as Talfuchre pointed out in another thread, I am somewhat weird, I guess, but because I will never meet any of you face to face, so I save pictures of BladeForum members because it is the closest I will get.........so, which one are you?:

Doc

 

[Fonly]

Holy moses man, awesome pictures you have an great place to go there.:thumbup:

 

[myright]

Sweet pictures - it looks like you had a great time.

Looks COLD - But FUN !!!

 

[stockman242]

Great lookin' pix :thumbup:
What I wouldn't give for a decant amount of snow, and maybe a little blizzard over here in Wuppertal - people are starting to think I'm crazy 'cause of all the gear I stash away.

Peter