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OK, I finally got around to posting some pics into my file. I also have a few minutes to get this posted here.
Last Sat morning Lieninkugel (Wes) and I went into North Central MA for an overnighter. We headed into the woods around 11am, the trail was awesome...I had never been to this area before, it was some seriously awesome terrain, very rocky and ICY...more than once we both almost took a header onto the icy trail..
All around where large boulders slicing out of the snow and Ice...WE started the trail at around 400 ft above sea level, according to the topos online. We steadily climbed, being careful to pace ourselves, and not sweat to much. The midday temp was 20 degrees F.
We quickly cut off the trail, and headed up towards what looked like an interesting area. It was, basically long cuts of the rocky terrain sticking up out of the snow like a big whales back...only hundreds of feet long, as if many of them swam side by side, at about 40 foot intervals. The rocks differed in height, some were high enough that you wouldnt risk climbing them with all the ice.
On the way up, we found a really nice ICE wall....it was impressive!
The day started out with no wind, and cold. We planned on using tarps and natural terrain to break any wind, and reflect a fire.
After finding a huge boulder, between some highrocks, and hemlocks, we settled in. The choice to setup were we did was made easier by the discovery of a large downed birch, that looked pretty good as source of fuel for the night.
Set up went well, and kept us warm enough.
Chopping and sawing let us test some new tools. I got to really abuse my new Walt Davis PBR! Man, what Chopper! Perhaps the best I have ever owned in this style!!!
Wes got to try out his new Rosseli Axe and Grandpa Knife. I also brought along my Rosseli hunter and GB Scandi forest axe. All tools performed VERY well.
more later...got to feed the baby!
Last Sat morning Lieninkugel (Wes) and I went into North Central MA for an overnighter. We headed into the woods around 11am, the trail was awesome...I had never been to this area before, it was some seriously awesome terrain, very rocky and ICY...more than once we both almost took a header onto the icy trail..
All around where large boulders slicing out of the snow and Ice...WE started the trail at around 400 ft above sea level, according to the topos online. We steadily climbed, being careful to pace ourselves, and not sweat to much. The midday temp was 20 degrees F.
We quickly cut off the trail, and headed up towards what looked like an interesting area. It was, basically long cuts of the rocky terrain sticking up out of the snow like a big whales back...only hundreds of feet long, as if many of them swam side by side, at about 40 foot intervals. The rocks differed in height, some were high enough that you wouldnt risk climbing them with all the ice.
On the way up, we found a really nice ICE wall....it was impressive!
The day started out with no wind, and cold. We planned on using tarps and natural terrain to break any wind, and reflect a fire.
After finding a huge boulder, between some highrocks, and hemlocks, we settled in. The choice to setup were we did was made easier by the discovery of a large downed birch, that looked pretty good as source of fuel for the night.
Set up went well, and kept us warm enough.
Chopping and sawing let us test some new tools. I got to really abuse my new Walt Davis PBR! Man, what Chopper! Perhaps the best I have ever owned in this style!!!
Wes got to try out his new Rosseli Axe and Grandpa Knife. I also brought along my Rosseli hunter and GB Scandi forest axe. All tools performed VERY well.
more later...got to feed the baby!
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I can see how you'd end up in that predicament, though. I sweat a lot, so I can see getting myself caught up in something similar. That's why I moved to the desert
