Damselfly
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Mike LaRoss, Lew Dow, Bill Magyar and I met in Groveton to bushwhack up to Savage and Goback... with Teapot on the agenda for consideration.
We drove up Lamms Trail (Rd.) off of Rt. 3. The dirt road is in good shape up to where there are a couple of cottages. One of the owners let us park on his drive / side lawn. The gate to the logging road was open, but the road was not passable past this point.
By now it was raining and rain gear was on. And it stayed on all day.
I'm embarrassed to admit that we lost quite a bit of time trying to navigate our way up through a rabbit's nest of logging roads. But it happens!
Finally back on track, we decided to ascend by following the spine of the ridge that leads up to Savage. We began our whack at about 2000' at a point where the logging road was heading SE... and the ridge NE.
While we were successful gaining the summit... it was far from an elegant route! The ridge was thick and nasty, and progress was slow. We walked across numerous blowdowns and crawled under some, pushed our way through thick spruce... and being all wet and cold, it was a miserable line to have chosen.
Minus the fooling around on the logging roads, it too us about a 2 1/2 hour climb up the ridge.
We arrived at the summit soaked, and cold... and it was breezy... so we didn't stay long, and as it was so wet, we didn't take any photos.
The hike over to Goback wasn't too bad. Actually, after the tough haul ascending the ridge, the walk over to Goback felt like a cakewalk.
Given how wet and cold we all were, it didn't feel wise to continue onto Teapot, so we decided to turn it around quickly, get moving, and get warm again. I created a waypoint to try to get us back down to the top of the one of the old logging roads.
We initially took a beeline off the summit, which led us to some cliffs we couldn't descend. So we went back to the summit, descended back to the Savage/Goback col, and then began our westerly descent down the ravine.
At about 2700' we picked up the faint scar / trail of an old skidder path, which turned into an old, overgrown logging trail. The old skidder path / trail, was wet, overgrown and muddy... but it was fairly easy to navigate and it was a welcome alternative than having to return by way of our ascent route. The old road followed along the brook; sometimes the brook and the road were one in the same.
Eventually, the old path dumped us back to where we started the bushwhack. From there it was a gravel road walk back to the car. The descent took us about 2 hours, and we marveled at a prior trip report we read in which it took others only an hour to descend!
Beth Zimmer... closing in! NHHH 101/107
btzimr at gmail dot com
We drove up Lamms Trail (Rd.) off of Rt. 3. The dirt road is in good shape up to where there are a couple of cottages. One of the owners let us park on his drive / side lawn. The gate to the logging road was open, but the road was not passable past this point.
By now it was raining and rain gear was on. And it stayed on all day.
I'm embarrassed to admit that we lost quite a bit of time trying to navigate our way up through a rabbit's nest of logging roads. But it happens!
Finally back on track, we decided to ascend by following the spine of the ridge that leads up to Savage. We began our whack at about 2000' at a point where the logging road was heading SE... and the ridge NE.
While we were successful gaining the summit... it was far from an elegant route! The ridge was thick and nasty, and progress was slow. We walked across numerous blowdowns and crawled under some, pushed our way through thick spruce... and being all wet and cold, it was a miserable line to have chosen.
Minus the fooling around on the logging roads, it too us about a 2 1/2 hour climb up the ridge.
We arrived at the summit soaked, and cold... and it was breezy... so we didn't stay long, and as it was so wet, we didn't take any photos.
The hike over to Goback wasn't too bad. Actually, after the tough haul ascending the ridge, the walk over to Goback felt like a cakewalk.
Given how wet and cold we all were, it didn't feel wise to continue onto Teapot, so we decided to turn it around quickly, get moving, and get warm again. I created a waypoint to try to get us back down to the top of the one of the old logging roads.
We initially took a beeline off the summit, which led us to some cliffs we couldn't descend. So we went back to the summit, descended back to the Savage/Goback col, and then began our westerly descent down the ravine.
At about 2700' we picked up the faint scar / trail of an old skidder path, which turned into an old, overgrown logging trail. The old skidder path / trail, was wet, overgrown and muddy... but it was fairly easy to navigate and it was a welcome alternative than having to return by way of our ascent route. The old road followed along the brook; sometimes the brook and the road were one in the same.
Eventually, the old path dumped us back to where we started the bushwhack. From there it was a gravel road walk back to the car. The descent took us about 2 hours, and we marveled at a prior trip report we read in which it took others only an hour to descend!
Beth Zimmer... closing in! NHHH 101/107
btzimr at gmail dot com
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