Washington via Ammonoosuc!

Leaders
Hariharan Rahul (A coC), Lucas Arthur (B coC), Osman Ahsen (C), Suzy McKinney (coC)
WIMP
Kurt Herzog
Program
Winter (outside IAP)
Type
Hiking
Trip date
Monday, February 18th, 2019
Difficulty rating
Difficult
Prerequisites
Winter school, or significant winter hiking experience (please describe below)

Celebrate President’s Weekend by hiking to the top of the mountain named after our very first president!

We'll take the Ammo trail to the Lake of the Clouds Hut at 5,032', where we will evaluate the conditions above treeline. If conditions look good, we will then continue via the Crawford Path to the summit of Mt Washington. If we are unable to reach Washington due to conditions or time, we may be able to hike to Mt Monroe as a backup plan.

This will be a long and steep hike with an early start. We will stay at Camelot on Sunday night in order to get to the trailhead efficiently on Monday morning. The total distance will be about 8.2 miles and +3,820' of elevation gain, with 3 miles total above treeline.

Recent winter hiking experience, a good system for full face cover, crampon experience, and strong physical fitness required.

Fallback plans:

If wind is too high on Washington, but we can still do an above treeline hike, we will do a combined Jefferson and Adams Hike. If fallback option 1 is not possible (which is the most likely outcome if an above treeline hike is not possible on Washington), we will hike Tom, Field and Willey.


Signup

Algorithm
first-come, first-serve
Maximum participants
6
Signups opened at
Feb. 12, 2019, noon
Signups closed at
Feb. 14, 2019, noon
Notes

1- Describe your above treeline winter hiking experience. 2- Have you used crampons before? 3- Will you be able to come to the mandatory pretrip meeting on Thursday at 6pm?

Signups for this trip are closed.