Johnny Law Posted April 12, 2010 Report Posted April 12, 2010 (edited) Dates: Easter Weekend Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTeWoXlWaBA Location: Mt. Adams/King Ravine Every spring east coast skiers flock in droves to Mt. Washington’s Tuckerman ravine, while they bump the shit out 2 small areas they mostly ignore the surrounding areas and its much more interesting terrain. This trip was both the most difficult and most rewarding EC BC trip in the last few years. I had been to King a bunch of times before but the high water and insane snow depths made the usually quick slog stretch on for 7 hours. We had 8 separate creek crossings with only one bridge and the snow depth was so high you either negotiated parts of the trail on your hands and knees or took half the forest with you. I don’t know if I’ve ever been more tired than when I hit camp Friday night, yet 12 hours later sitting on the summit of Adams eating lunch with thoughts of scralping King Ravine all that bs went away. The weather was unreal, my sleeping bag became a mattress and we hiked everywhere in tshirts. Its not something you can explain unless you’ve been there an experienced similar things but for long moments of that day everything was as close to perfect as I’ll ever see. Memories like that just aren’t made at the resort. Shit we have to go all the way up there… Trail head accommodations were sparse so we got an alpine start, our reward for this trip is some a hole broke into the truck while we were gone and stole a bunch of our shit. This is a bridge, they are pretty sweet for crossing creeks and rivers. Somebody should forward that info on to RMC. Fun is negotiating rocky creeks with 50 pound packs while every snow bridge in the tri state area collapses. Ski boots are surprisingly water proof. The aphribach trail may be one of the most beautiful trials I’ve ever seen, normally we use shortline which is far quicker but lacks the every ¼ mile waterfalls. Our weekend accommodations were excellent, they view unrivaled in the NE. Outside our front door Getting closer Long way from home…Crag looks so small Our objective – red line is decent green line is our bootpack. For reference that’s about 1200 vert and the top of the green line, great gully is about 150 -200 ft wide up top. The steepness varies from 45 -55 degrees. Skiing is cool Back up was interesting….lots of water coming down with the temps so high Not a bad way to spend a weekend Back up top we schralped some low angle summit fields and eventually went back to camp to eat lobster and steak. The trip out sucked but in all my trips to bigger more snowy places I’m hard pressed to come up with a more perfect day than that Saturday, sometimes the EC just all out delivers. Edited April 12, 2010 by Johnny Law 1 Quote
snoskier Posted April 13, 2010 Report Posted April 13, 2010 Sick report. That looks like an awesome trip. Quote
Johnny Law Posted April 13, 2010 Author Report Posted April 13, 2010 is the dude in all the pictures with the teles and the glasses you??? Looks a little like Nick Malozzi No I'm in the blue jacket, glasses dude is my cousin and I bust his balls constantly about the tele's. Fucking hippies Quote
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