There are four distinct seasons: winter, spring, summer, and fall. But in the mountains, especially, the lines between these seasons can become blurred and indistinct. Case in point, one day it’s warm and sunny and very spring-like, surfaces getting softer as they melt in the sun, and the next day it’s full-on winter, all that melt water frozen creating a treacherous surface to climb on, with long, sliding falls becoming a real threat along with navigating rime-covered rocks in the clouds. Gotta love that mountain weather! It’s all good from our perspective, though. Black Mountain Ski Area in Jackson allows us to use their still-snowy mountain for our training day (thank you), and on-mountain on day two it screams winter and we need that. This allows us to continue offering our Two-Day Winter Mt Washington epics well into the “spring.” Leading this one, all the way to the summit with one guest, was Redline Guide Debra McCown. The photos below she captured along the way.
