Frankontour
08-17-2003, 10:48 PM
Finally today was the day !
With the bad forecast of yesterday, we chose to do a part of the drive yesterday... to arrive sooner today at Tucks. Of course, Intellicast was in the **** with their forecast, but if we've almost never seen the sun (and the views), at least it didn't really rained, except in the last 10 minutes of walking down to Pinkham Notch, below the tunnel trees anyway.
But we really enjoyed the mountain and were surprised of how much it was popular, during this poor weather day in summer, with surely near 1 thousand of hikers, not counting the crowd on the summit parking. As the winds were enough low, on the upper part, I've been able to reach the summit without too much problem.
Arrived on the upper Lunch Rocks, I saw that there was no snow remaining, near the waterfall. Oh and by the way, the white path seeable on the close cam of Mt Washington is effectively the waterfall of the Little Headwall. It was looking obvious and very white, from Hojo's. The Tuckerman Ravine trail, above the Lunch Rocks was quite hairy, cause it was very wet and sliding, added to the danger of the place.
I was with my father... who wanted to see the mountain for a while. He really enjoyed the mountain, but fell really sad to not see the summit, cause of the clouds and because the difficulty of the Tucks trail in the ravine, where he stopped. On the road this morning, the visibility was 0 above 2000', so we missed Mt Adams & the other big near the road #2. On the 16, we didn't see nothing, except the lower part of Wildcat as the clouds were a little bit higher there. So the very first real mountain he saw was this :
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/discus/messages/2508/2693.jpg
It was quite comic to tell him this was Dodge's Drop and was a ski trail ;)
Later, when we arrived at HoJo's, we had a great view on Tucks & Hillman's, but it just stayed few minutes, unfortunately, before the clouds came back in the ravine. At least, I got this one before + a few not so bad from near Connection cache.
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/discus/messages/2508/2694.jpg
Sadly, from the top, It wasn't possible to see the Great Gulf where I wanted to see the Airplane/Pipeline
And last pic, it was quite comic, just as I was going to hike down, I told me oh-oh... Above Tucks, it was almost sunny, but in Tucks, there was a huge white cloud... funny to see, but not to go down into that, with the fear of rain in the toughest part !
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/discus/messages/2508/2695.jpg
So it remained very cool, but next time I go there will be with SNOW !!!!!
With the bad forecast of yesterday, we chose to do a part of the drive yesterday... to arrive sooner today at Tucks. Of course, Intellicast was in the **** with their forecast, but if we've almost never seen the sun (and the views), at least it didn't really rained, except in the last 10 minutes of walking down to Pinkham Notch, below the tunnel trees anyway.
But we really enjoyed the mountain and were surprised of how much it was popular, during this poor weather day in summer, with surely near 1 thousand of hikers, not counting the crowd on the summit parking. As the winds were enough low, on the upper part, I've been able to reach the summit without too much problem.
Arrived on the upper Lunch Rocks, I saw that there was no snow remaining, near the waterfall. Oh and by the way, the white path seeable on the close cam of Mt Washington is effectively the waterfall of the Little Headwall. It was looking obvious and very white, from Hojo's. The Tuckerman Ravine trail, above the Lunch Rocks was quite hairy, cause it was very wet and sliding, added to the danger of the place.
I was with my father... who wanted to see the mountain for a while. He really enjoyed the mountain, but fell really sad to not see the summit, cause of the clouds and because the difficulty of the Tucks trail in the ravine, where he stopped. On the road this morning, the visibility was 0 above 2000', so we missed Mt Adams & the other big near the road #2. On the 16, we didn't see nothing, except the lower part of Wildcat as the clouds were a little bit higher there. So the very first real mountain he saw was this :
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/discus/messages/2508/2693.jpg
It was quite comic to tell him this was Dodge's Drop and was a ski trail ;)
Later, when we arrived at HoJo's, we had a great view on Tucks & Hillman's, but it just stayed few minutes, unfortunately, before the clouds came back in the ravine. At least, I got this one before + a few not so bad from near Connection cache.
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/discus/messages/2508/2694.jpg
Sadly, from the top, It wasn't possible to see the Great Gulf where I wanted to see the Airplane/Pipeline
And last pic, it was quite comic, just as I was going to hike down, I told me oh-oh... Above Tucks, it was almost sunny, but in Tucks, there was a huge white cloud... funny to see, but not to go down into that, with the fear of rain in the toughest part !
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/discus/messages/2508/2695.jpg
So it remained very cool, but next time I go there will be with SNOW !!!!!