Walking Waumbek
- Leaders
- Kasun Waidyaratne (A coB), Kate Shulgina (B)
- Program
- Winter School
- Type
- Hiking
- Terrain level
- B
- Trip date
- Sunday, January 30th, 2022
- Difficulty rating
- Moderate
- Prerequisites
- At least one previous MITOC B-level trip. Good layering/delayering skills.
Total distance 6.9 miles, 2800k ft elevation gain. Route will be Mt Waumbek via Starr King trail, out and back. Departure from Boston will likely be around 5-5:30 AM.
Waumbek doesn't have a great reputation. It requires over a three hour drive and has no summit views *. Then why would you ever want to hike it? Peakbagging! Peakbaggers rejoice and hike this unspectacular mountain with good company! If you're not a peakbagger, you'll be on your way to becoming one by the end of the trip :)
* there are supposedly views near the Mt Starr King subpeak
Weather on Saturday is expected to be in the low single digits, so be prepared with your layering/delayering!
Note: There is a potential storm developing this weekend that might affect our ability to drive up the Whites. We may change location/gear or cancel depending on the weather.
Our pre-trip meeting will be held at 6 PM on Thursday inside the Stratton Student Center
Signup
- Algorithm
- first-come, first-serve
- Maximum participants
- 4
- Signups opened at
- Jan. 26, 2022, noon
- Signups closed at
- Jan. 27, 2022, 11:59 p.m.
- Notes
- Do you have any dietary restrictions?
- What traction have you used in the winter?
- What is your prior experience with winter hiking? Please list previous winter hikes you've done in the past two years.
- What hiking lists are you working on? (None is ok!)