I climbed 4 peaks this weekend. On Saturday my wife and I climbed High Falls and Little Rocky in the CATS. Loved them both. The waterfall was impressive - it was very tall. Little Rocky had some cool topography, lots of ledges and pines which made for an exciting climb.
Yesterday I climbed S. Whaleback and Big Coolidge in the Whites. I took the old Osseo trail up from the neighborhood across from Loon. The old Osseo trail goes up to within a very short distance of S. Whaleback. It was a short, pretty easy bushwhack to the summit of S. Whaleback from the Old Osseo trail. However, when I got to the summit canister, it was a peanut butter jar. I looked in it and people had written "fake summit." So I pressed on about another 15 minutes across the ridge, where I found the real summit and AMC PVC canister.
Once I got back down to the old Osseo Trail I went down a ways and then bushwhacked across the cusp of the lower flanks of Whaleback over to the base of Big Coolidge. Big Coolidge stood before me like a giant wall. I headed up the extremely steep face. It took me 90 minutes to get to the summit from the brook below. I'd say mostly class 3 whacking. I descended off the summit heading southeast towards Loon. Some steep class 4 thickness on this route. I emerged back on the old Osseo trail right by the water tank/tower behind the neighborhood I had begun at.
Total time: 6 hours. A great sunny day in the Whites.
High Falls in the CATS (On way up to High Falls Peak). Awesome 60-70 foot waterfall:
At Summit canister of South Whaleback before going on to Big Coolidge in the Whites yesterday:
Tough going on the steep bushwhack to the summit of Big Coolidge yesterday in the Whites:
View north toward Franconia Notch from Big Coolidge:
Hopefully weather is decent Friday and I can sneak a hike in before with a day out of work.
