Recent content by Chriswo

We started early (6ish) only to find out one of our lamps was messed up. We were , however, able to do the first part of Calamity trail with only one. This is the best half of the trail which is pretty much a mud pit all the way to Flowed Lands. Perfectly clear skys gave us early light and...

That's 44 with no rain HI Just saw this thread. I guess we aren't alone. We don't count the mist on summits, Its not really rain but it is wet. Also we don't count rain the previous nite. We get wet but not "primary wetness" ( our new term) Falling into streams, postholing, mudpits etc...

Our route was N/O trail to Santa, over to Times Square, out and back to Couch, and down the Panther trail to Blue and out. Total time was just under 12 hours. we never needed lamps though the walk down the gravel rd was pretty dark at 6:00 AM. The N/O trail was beautiful, now one of my...

Blue trail to Bradly Pond very muddy but pretty easy to pick your way around worst areas. Trail to 4 corners a tough slog but also mostly easy to follow. From there to Panther a breeze. Met our first Black flies of the day on summit but then they stayed with us the rest of the hike. Must not...

Trail extremely muddy right from the start. Suprisingly, Indian Falls Brook was not too high for a safe barefoot crossing. The mud seemed to get worse as we ascended with the largest wallow of all at the summit clearing of Street. We kind of felt guilty for even hiking in those conditions...

Very long and very muddy! The river crossing that we were concerned with was easy. Never more than knee deep at the crossing. Trail well marked and obvious. A lot of water and slime on the slide making it extremely slippery. Everywhere else it was easy walking with some long areas of mud...