HuiYeng
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But I climbed Osceola Slide on Monday (9/8/08).
When NH_Mtn_Hiker invites you to a hike, you don’t suggest a trip like Mt Tecumseh via the ski trail. It didn't take me too long to come up with Osceola Slide, given that this man knows the slide like the back of his hand.
We hiked in from East Pond trail and started bushwhacking just before the trail crosses the first river crossing. We saw a couple of campsites along the bushwhack before it gets thick. After about half an hour of pushing through the thick spruce and dodging caterpillars on the branches later, we made it out of the bushwhack and started following the brook up to the slide. The beginning of the brook walk was mainly hopping on rocks, and then the terrain turns into slabs of boulder, avalanche field and then back to dry rocks hopping before we arrived at the bottom of the slide.
From a distance the slide looks very slippery, when we get up close, the slide looks more like a series of cascades, oh wait, it is a serious of cascades. Bob commented that the slide has changed its condition quite a bit throughout the years. According to him it was much drier back when he first climbed it, and the lower section of the slide was more overgrown by vegetation than it used to be. I guess that kinda feed into each other.
So off we went, I can’t remember exactly how many waterfalls (big or small) we climbed. Most of them have solid surface along the side where we can carefully pick a dry spot to walk on it or at the steep section we can easily find good solid hand holds to guide us up. But toward the top of the slide before the terrain turns into scree slope, the slabs become drier and flakier. The surface either has cracks on it that make me think twice before stepping on it or it’s already loose and scattered with scree. Some very careful maneuvering, carefully shifting my body weight and lightly holding on the tiniest piece of moss with the tip of my fingers to help balancing, I made my way slowly up.
After we survived climbing the waterfalls, the slide made a left turn and the terrain turns into loose rocks and scree. It reminded me a lot of the North Slide of the North Tripyramid. From there to the top was much easier and we made it up to the top smoothly and rewarded by the views of Franconia Ridge and all the way to Mt Washington.
From the top of the slide we entered the woods and a short but thick bushwhack later we found the trail. We walked up to the summit and hopped over to East Peak and happily descended the mountain via the maintained trail back to the parking lot and back to Lincoln where hot pizzas are calling our names.
Osceola slide definitely is a very beautiful slide with many different challenges along the way. I honestly was pretty nervous at a couple of spots, but with caution, I made it up OK. Thanks Bob, for yet another wonderful adventure!
Here are the rest of the pictures I took. Enjoy!
When NH_Mtn_Hiker invites you to a hike, you don’t suggest a trip like Mt Tecumseh via the ski trail. It didn't take me too long to come up with Osceola Slide, given that this man knows the slide like the back of his hand.
We hiked in from East Pond trail and started bushwhacking just before the trail crosses the first river crossing. We saw a couple of campsites along the bushwhack before it gets thick. After about half an hour of pushing through the thick spruce and dodging caterpillars on the branches later, we made it out of the bushwhack and started following the brook up to the slide. The beginning of the brook walk was mainly hopping on rocks, and then the terrain turns into slabs of boulder, avalanche field and then back to dry rocks hopping before we arrived at the bottom of the slide.
From a distance the slide looks very slippery, when we get up close, the slide looks more like a series of cascades, oh wait, it is a serious of cascades. Bob commented that the slide has changed its condition quite a bit throughout the years. According to him it was much drier back when he first climbed it, and the lower section of the slide was more overgrown by vegetation than it used to be. I guess that kinda feed into each other.
So off we went, I can’t remember exactly how many waterfalls (big or small) we climbed. Most of them have solid surface along the side where we can carefully pick a dry spot to walk on it or at the steep section we can easily find good solid hand holds to guide us up. But toward the top of the slide before the terrain turns into scree slope, the slabs become drier and flakier. The surface either has cracks on it that make me think twice before stepping on it or it’s already loose and scattered with scree. Some very careful maneuvering, carefully shifting my body weight and lightly holding on the tiniest piece of moss with the tip of my fingers to help balancing, I made my way slowly up.
After we survived climbing the waterfalls, the slide made a left turn and the terrain turns into loose rocks and scree. It reminded me a lot of the North Slide of the North Tripyramid. From there to the top was much easier and we made it up to the top smoothly and rewarded by the views of Franconia Ridge and all the way to Mt Washington.
From the top of the slide we entered the woods and a short but thick bushwhack later we found the trail. We walked up to the summit and hopped over to East Peak and happily descended the mountain via the maintained trail back to the parking lot and back to Lincoln where hot pizzas are calling our names.
Osceola slide definitely is a very beautiful slide with many different challenges along the way. I honestly was pretty nervous at a couple of spots, but with caution, I made it up OK. Thanks Bob, for yet another wonderful adventure!
Here are the rest of the pictures I took. Enjoy!
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