A returning guest came to us with hopes of summiting Mts Jefferson and Washington. Unfortunately snows the night before filled in the trail. Granted, Redline Guide Chase Hall found the trail still easy to follow, and it was certainly quite pretty, but breaking out Jewell Trail with all that fresh powder tired out our guest to the point of them not making either summit. That said, […]
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A returning mountaineering guest came to us looking to broaden her already impressive skills to include ice climbing (taking our intro course). And according to Redline Guide Glenn Van Neil, she was a natural. He added that she’ll be back noting the glimmer in her eye on the final top-out. Decent ice was found in Kinsman Notch. Of course the proof is in the photos… Great […]
For those who are hiking New Hampshire’s 48 4000-footers, the initials on the post’s title will be familiar (and not confused with some expletive). The ‘W’ referring to Mt Willey, the ‘T’ referring to Mt Tom, and the ‘F’ referring to Mt Field. In this case the ordering was T, F, W, F, A. This means the team — our guest along with Redline Guide Chase […]
A recent guest put together his own keepsake video of a mountain experience with us and told us he definitely plans to come back for more of that mountain goodness. Check out the video of this his time with us from start to finish. If you check it out on YouTube, please be sure to give it a “Like” and subscribe to the channel. Here, check […]
A stretch of warm weather and some rain really had a number of people concerned that the season was over, even though it’s Spring, it’s not quite over in the mountains, though the melting and rain did do some serious damage. For example, the Lion Head Winter Route on Mt Washington is more like an ice climb than the steep snow climb we’re more accustomed to. […]
This is another post covering a hike our Grid-Getting-Guest did with Redline Guide Chase Hall in the lead. Originally this was meant to be hike one of two, back-to-back, but we apparently jinxed it completely by posting to that effect. We figured since the next hike was scheduled for the next day, this post could cover both concurrent 4000-footers. As it turned out, this post will […]
We don’t always make it to the actual Mt Washington summit. Sometimes it’s just out of reach. This can be for a variety of reasons. Weather/weather trend is one. It can be wicked up there so that stands to reason. Another issue can be conditioning — it’s a tough mountain for most folks. And sometimes illness or injury may stop the progress. Take leg cramps, for […]
A couple of fellows came to us, like many do, with a single objective: Climb Mt Washington in the winter. And winter it surely was, the mountain giving our guests the requested season without any form of doubt to be sure. Especially to one of our guests who came to us from Georgia. Up there full conditions gave our guests an experience to remember. Like many, […]
A person came to us hoping to do an overnight in the alpine as part of her prep for climbing Denali later this year. Training like this is fairly common for those taking on the world’s tallest mountains. Here in NH, especially on the Presidential Range, we have the terrain (excluding glaciers) and the mean mountain weather to provide a real world simulation without having to […]
We had Redline Guide Chase Hall out there leading on the Ammonoosuc Ravine Trail and Crawford Path on Mt Washington. With him was a single guest. The majority of the hikes Chase leads are for one fellow we’ve taken to calling “Grid Getting Guest” (as a part of our privacy policy we don’t divulge names). On this most recent hike, our guest had the same first […]
Some say skiing in Tuckerman Ravine is a rite of passage. A stop on the journey from beginner to backcountry expert. So much so that people come from all over to try their hand at it. Some might immediately think that this is nuts, but the beauty of Ravine skiing is that one can stop at any point, slap on the sticks, and go. In this […]
