fthurber
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Does anyone know about the gully that runs north off the west ridge of Mt. Lincoln? This exposed gorge is clearly visible from the Agonies along the Old Bridal Path up to the Greenleaf Hut and from the hut. This is not the Throat on Lincoln, or the other slabs on the west slope of Lincoln (which Guy Waterman called “Lincoln’s Shaving Nicks”), but rather a flume-like slice into the northern slope of west ridge of Lincoln.
This gully is choked with snow and ice in the winter and might present an interesting climb. In the summer it might be a cool, interesting flume (or a dark, slimy, impassible fissure). I am especially curious about what it is like in the summer.
As far as I can tell it was first explored in 1880 by Charles E. Fay who descended down it from the untracked west ridge of Lincoln. He called it a precipitous “sunless gorge”. There is no easy access to it that I know of, but in 1897 Frank O. Carpenter cut a trail up the west ridge of Lincoln, but this trail was obliterated by subsequent logging.
I would think that the way to access this gorge would be to follow Walker Brook up to its major fork. There may be old logging roads in this area, but I have heard conflicting accounts of these. Take the south branch of Walker Brook (toward the Throat) and look for the base of the gorge on the right (well before the Throat). In this way the gorge could be accessed without damaging the alpine vegetation on the upper west ridge of Lincoln.
This gully is choked with snow and ice in the winter and might present an interesting climb. In the summer it might be a cool, interesting flume (or a dark, slimy, impassible fissure). I am especially curious about what it is like in the summer.
As far as I can tell it was first explored in 1880 by Charles E. Fay who descended down it from the untracked west ridge of Lincoln. He called it a precipitous “sunless gorge”. There is no easy access to it that I know of, but in 1897 Frank O. Carpenter cut a trail up the west ridge of Lincoln, but this trail was obliterated by subsequent logging.
I would think that the way to access this gorge would be to follow Walker Brook up to its major fork. There may be old logging roads in this area, but I have heard conflicting accounts of these. Take the south branch of Walker Brook (toward the Throat) and look for the base of the gorge on the right (well before the Throat). In this way the gorge could be accessed without damaging the alpine vegetation on the upper west ridge of Lincoln.