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Safety, Help, & Guidance

You’ve probably heard of the New Hampshire 4000-footers. There are 48 of them. We’ve mentioned them a time or two. Hiking them in the three seasons (spring, summer, and fall) is an insanely popular activity nowadays. Taking on those peaks in the winter is also gaining traction — see what we did there? There are no bugs, you still sweat but you also cool down faster, […]

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Morgan and Percival

These two peaks — Morgan and Percival — appear on the 52 With a View list — numbers 51 and 52, respectively — but they may be even more well known for their sketchy bits earning them not one but two places on the Terrifying 25 list as well. This day wasn’t about sketchy bits, though. This was just a hike, exercise, fresh air, and views. […]

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Until Their Arms Gave Out

A father and son team from New York came to us hoping to do some ice climbing, to take an intro course, but also asked that they get exposed to mountaineering skills such as studying the use of crampons and ice axe. These skills, the father mentioned, will ultimately be more useful in the short term. If we can give someone a cake and let them […]

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Laps, Technique, and Fun

It is these items — “do some laps, learn some technique, and have some fun” — that our guests wanted from their adventure time ice climbing with us. They wanted to do some top-roping in an ever increasing arc starting out easy and the other end of the arc locating their limits, those at present, anyway. Sounds like a doable thing, right? Redline Guide Glenn Van […]

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Birthday Surprise

Perhaps shock and awe might fit better than “surprise.” Between the “steeps” and that gnarly Mt Washington weather, our guest felt alive to say the least. This was a private two-day Winter Mt Washington program complete with a day of training followed by an exciting mountaineering experience worth noting. The alpine reward as many know, is sublime. As Redline Guide Mike Maciel put it when we […]

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Willey and Field Are Two

The plan was to take on the Willey Range for a new guest working on her NH 4000-footers. She was from Connecticut, not new to our mountains, approaching the half-way point, but didn’t want to take on the winter summits without backup. That’s where we come in. Just before the hike our guest had been visiting family down under, but felt ready to take on this […]

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Rock Becomes Ice

Noting the title of this blog post, you may be wondering how rock becomes ice. The answer is quite simply: time. Scientifically-speaking, you know this isn’t possible (right?), though geologists might argue the point, so how’s it all work? How on earth does rock become ice over time? Well, it goes something like this: A couple signs up for a rock climbing epic… but life gets […]

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Goldilocks Experience

It’s not too hard, it’s not too soft, it’s not too hot, it’s not too cold… it’s all juuust right! A couple from New Brunswick, Canada, came to us hoping to do some winter hiking or snowshoeing. They were newer than new to the sport having no experience at all. While we do formally train people to hike, this couple opted to just get out there […]

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Having an Impact

Every now and then the impact we have on others reminds us our importance. There are stories re-told on our testimonials page that credit us in part for people getting themselves back on trail or for stopping themselves with an ice axe during a long, sliding fall. In these reminders we see how the training we offer has really done some good. Maybe saved a life […]

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Chasing Winter Peaks

A returning guest came to us looking for a companion for two more winter 4000-footers. Namely they wanted Mt Isolation and Mt Carrigain. Oddly enough, these two mountains in particular seem to switch places in the winter, at least in terms of total mileage. In the winter, thanks to its added 4 mile road walk — two miles out and two miles back — Mt Carrigain […]

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Of Mountains and Glaciers

While we have no glaciers here in the Northeast, we do have wide, snow-covered hills that may resemble glaciated terrain… if you squint. And that’s all we need. Even for practicing crevasse rescue. Bi-angled hills, trees for self-rescue, some creative use of the landscape plays a role in our training. The training featured in this blog post was a custom combination course. The morning was our […]

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Sunrise on Mt Washington

Two people just spent a couple days with us. One day they did some winter and mountaineering skills training, and the next day they hiked up Mt Washington by way the Ammo. Quite a normal thing if not for the fact the objective was to take in the sunrise from the summit. And that they did. Kind of. Redline Guide Pat Ferland offered a summary of […]

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