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Does any one have first hand knowledge of the snow load currently on the slide above the trap dyke? looking to solo it thursday morning if conditions are right.

conditions: there was a hard crust 3in thick covering most of the ground started in crampons hiked in them all day,at the summit there was 2to3 foot base of hard ice with 4in of verry light snow on the deccent it snowed pritty heavy and put on another 2-4 inches but only on above 3500 ft lower...

today my kids ( Kate 7 and Caroline 9)were off from School so we decided to go for a hike the location and trail are unimportant but the events were unnerving. We were hiking down a trail shortly after our start when my 7 year old started to scream in a pitch that cannot be decribed. the emotion...

how deep is the snow in the 3000 + ft range I would like to do the chicken coup brook aproach to basin in feb and need to start info gathering .My time is unfortunity short in the high peaks and I need to start weighting my options for the greatest sucsess rates .I was on the C.C.B. Last year...

As I am a verry visual person ,I was wondering if anybody had any pictures of the Saddleback/chicken coop brookslide? from the air?from Table top , from the top of saddleback.I was chased up it by a swarm of black flies and in the name of self preservation I opted not to stop for some pictures.

any body have Beta on current snow depths around the great range ?

We had a outstanding hike/climb up the Eagle slide on Giant this past sat, the 24th .As usual we got up late on friday nite about 3am and this put us at the trail head at close to noon,4hrs to the top with lunch 1/2 hr on the scree before the slide."The climb was outstanding'' the perfect...

any beta on eagle slide on Giant this time of year ?

Hi ,I am looking for some beta on approaches to the bottom of basins wash bowl to get some pictures up the slides for apossible future climb (somthing to aspire to). On my Natinal Geographic maping program it shows a trail going down from the S E summit of SaddleBack,I have climbed saddle Back...

I will be hiking the high peaks on fathers day to the 24th and have used citronella cream deep woods of and macanudos (cigars). This has worked on the fringes of the season, but has not been tested in the end of June. As the constraints of the world are upon me this is the only time I can get...

hello all thank you for all of your advice and insight in advance.I being the great leader of brave ,resorcefull ,quickwited, noisy, fowlsmelling fools have been sumoned to divise another means to inflict pain and fear on there hard working souls.this being said let me begin I was...

I would like to demo bindings and skis,or ofcourse rent this setup before I buy dose anybody know of a shop that rents or lets you demo rondnee setups (I have Koflach degree 04 boots) I live on long Iland, so somewere inbetween lake placid and N.Y.C in a perfect world would be great thanks in...

I recently started hiking the slides and find them outstanding.any feed back on this slide would be greatly apreicated. I would like to couple it with a explouration of panther gourge. I understand there use to be a trail down from the col between haystack and marcy .the more info the better...

I have read in about this slide here a copuple of weeks ago,how tecnical is it? do I need Ice tools or is crampons and a mountaineering ax enough?

reciently I tried to enter the high peaks from elk lake,at the and of the road I encountered a gate .Usually because of time constaints I travel at nite, park at the trail head sleep a couple of hours and hike at first light. It was 2am not knowing if the house near the gate was ocuppied or not...

recently I read A thread on this forum on sweeper skis as critical as it was,I am still intested. The main reason is the fact that I do not want to carry in another set of boots. Can anybody tell me, how they get around a shoe that covers all the base,s I am looking to save weight on extended...