24 Peaks in 6 hiking day in the White

On Christmas Day I started my winter hiking of 2006-2007
and summited Tecumseh. A very easy hike to start the
winter and treat my cold. Tent camping at the Lafayette campground
and sleep at 7:00 pm on Christmas day!!!!

December 26, 2006 Hiking with Pierre (Oncoman)
Our plan for this day was: Cannon-Cannon Ball-N&S Kinsman
Moosilauke on the night
Due to bad weather (snow,rain,freezing rain,sleet) we
skipe the Moosilauke. We start at 6:00 am and finish at 2:30 pm.
After dinner we where sleep at 5:30 pm.

December 27, 2006 Hiking with Pierre
Our plan for the day was: The Osceola and the Hancock
As plan we hike E.Osceola-Osceola-S&N Hancock. The weather
was better than the day before but it was cloudy all day.

December 28, 2006 Hiking with Pierre
Our plan for the day was: Passaconaway-Whiteface-sleepers-Trypiramid
As plan we summit all of those on a very long hike after one unplanned
visited to square ledge. We started at 6:00 am and went very fast for
the first 4 miles and the last 4 miles. We where very tired at the summit
of Passaconaway after our visited of square ledge. We eat a bit and
went fine for Whiteface-Sleepers. The S.Slide of the tripiramid was a
bit icy so we put our crampons.

December 29, 2006 Return home.
I wake up at 3:30 am and packed my big tent and went home. A long
return to Montreal after a short night of sleep.

January 6, 2007 Hiking with Pierre
Our plan for the day was: Moriah-Carters-Wildcat
The weather was bad again(rain all day) but we managed to summit
all of the peak bareboot. Not enough snow to used the crampons.
Stabilizer would had been very usefull. We reach the summit of Wildcat D
at around 7:00 pm and switch to crampon for the descend of the ski
slope. Very strange feeling, no snow on a ski slope that high! We finish
at 8:30 pm after a 14 hours hike

January 7, 2007 Solo hiking
My plan was for two hike: Carrigain-Tom,Field,Willey
I skiped Carrigain (road closed) and went at the AMC Highland center
and buy one pair of stabilizer. I used them all day and summit Avalon,
Field,Willey,Field,Tom and finished at 2:00pm. Return home after.

So after 6 days of hiking I had done 21 peaks on the NH 4000K and
3 others peaks. At the same time last year after 6 days in the DAKS
I had 14 summit. For sure the white are easier than the DAKS.

Rejean - I thought you would be on Katahdin during the week after Christmas! I was hiking all week and I would have loved to join you and Pierre!

I only did 18 peaks (and 7 4000'ers) in 7 days. They were as follows:

12/24: Isolation and Carrigain
12/25: Moosilauke, Blue, Jim, and Kancamagus
12/26: poor weather: day off
12/27: Avalon, Tom, Field, Willey
12/28: Tremont, South Doublehead, North Doublehead
12/29: Shelburne Moriah, Moriah
12/30: Iron Mtn (poor weather all morning and early afternoon)
12/31: Crawford, Stairs

I would have done more, but I didn't have anyone to help me with car spots so I did almost all out-and-back hikes. I was also having trouble with my boots irritating an old Achilles tendon injury. I ended up hiking 5 days in the snow with neoprene-covered Nike running shoes - not great for keeping your toes warm!

Keep me posted on any future hikes - I'd like to do a Hale/Zealand/Bonds traverse or a Franconias to Owl's Head via Osseo and Lincoln slide sometime if you're interested.

...Albee

May I ask a question here?
When you guys say you do all these peaks on your hikes, do you mean that you hiked each mountain individually or do you climb one and then stay up high and hike the ridge trails to the next summit? For example, if you are hikng Lafeyette from the bottom and then skipping across to Lincoln and Liberty on the Franconia Ridge trail, does this qualify towards completing the list or is this called something else like peakbagging?
If someone says that they "complete the list of the 4000 footers", by which method do they mean?
Thanks, and I don't mean any disrespect either, Eric

For the NH48, you can count multiple peaks on a ridge traverse, i.e., up FW, across FR to Lincoln and on to Lafayette, and then down OBP counts both Lincoln and Lafayette. Willey, Tom and Field are almost always done together.

For the Trailwrights 72 list, you can only count one peak per trip from the trail head.

Tim