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NHski
08-22-2003, 02:20 PM
the slides off Mt. Flume look enticing. Anybody ever done it?

http://timefortuckerman.com/members/nhski/NHSkiMtflume.jpg
DMC
08-22-2003, 02:57 PM
Looks like some SERIOUS avalanche terrain..
Hate to climb all that way just to test and run away...

Great pitch!!! Love to hear a report...
Skilasnow
08-22-2003, 03:30 PM
That looks pretty sweet, wher on this map is it?

topo (http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=19&n=4891596&e=288462&s=100&layer=DRG100&size=m&u=0)
NHski
08-22-2003, 03:33 PM
The slope certainly is in the range for avy's. It is a western facing slide, so i think it is the windward side, which might make it stable.
NHski
08-22-2003, 03:35 PM
Skilaslenas, it is just south of there, Mt. Flume.
DMC
08-22-2003, 04:13 PM
I wonder how the hike in is...
NHski
08-22-2003, 04:21 PM
I hiked to it this week, going up the liberty slide to franconia ridge. Its about 5 miles to the top of the Mt. flume slide. I hiked down the mt. flume trail, and i don't think it would be a good trail to skin in, way to steep.
RR
08-22-2003, 04:23 PM
A bunch of kids from Cannon did it two winters ago. I'll ask one and get back to you. I think they used the same Arctic Cat ski lift they later used after Cannon closed for the season.

Addendum:

The only unskied open patch up on the ridge is Shining Rock. The cool thing is that every year is differnt, so it's always a first descent (on the year)!
TheOctopus
08-23-2003, 10:28 PM
I've had my eye on that, along with the slides on Owls Head and North Tripyramid (the latter two I have discussed with folks who have skied them). I'm told by some folks who have climbed Flume in the winter that it can get pretty icy (which means snow just ain't going to stick to it). Still, I'd love to spend some time giving this stuff a try, if the conditions were right.

One excellent tour would be to hit the Candelabra (slide on the west side of Franconia Ridge) and then Owls Head from there.

All this, of course, awaits job duties returning me from the midwest to New Engalnd....
Skilasnow
08-24-2003, 12:55 AM
Let me try that again...
plume topo (http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=19&n=4887705&e=288584&s=100&size=m&u=0&layer=DRG100)

so is that picture taken from the the southern ridge off Liberty and so are those patches more or less where the trail mark is?
NHski
08-24-2003, 12:29 PM
that pic was taken at the top of liberty. The flume slide trail is just to the right of the slides if you are looking up at the mountain.
gwest
08-24-2003, 01:05 PM
There's also the lincoln slides, which are on the back side of the franconia ridge. You can see them from mt washington. They hold snow a little while into the spring, usually still a patch there in early june. Here's a pic (http://us.f1f.yahoofs.com/users/ec717838/bc/Skiing/__hr_lincoln+slides.jpg?bfjWPS_AYITurJUF) of them from the Pemi wildnerness.