Re: [at-l] Trip Report

[tmcginnis@ucclan.state.in.us (Thomas McGinnis)]

     For a section hike, two weeks for the next 100 miles of Whites doesn't 
     sound like a bad idea to me, but don't underestimate what you've 
     already done in climbing Moosey-Lockey and the Kinsman Range. I think 
     they've DEFINITELY given you a good tastey of the Whites. Yum!
     
     One piece of advice, though: You definitely DON'T want to be doing the 
     Whites with so much food you're giving meals and meals away. On 
     flatter terrain, that kind of load will just give you sore shoulders 
     and hips, but in the Whites, you will DESTROY your quads (uphill) and 
     knees (downhill) -- AND EVEN ON THE FLAT! -- because it is such a 
     uniformly scrabbled treadway. Miles of it. Miles and miles of it. 
     Plus-which, you'll be so busy looking for a foot spot to plant your 
     heavy load that you'll never even see the above-tree-line scenery 
     unless you stop. GO LIGHT! BE HEALTHY! Hell, I've even personally gone 
     so low as to (one year) actually patronizing the Appalachian Money 
     Changers huts: a daypack w/lunch. Even then it was still tough.
     
     Thanks for the good reading, and best wishes for the Whites.


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Subject: [at-l] Trip Report
Author:  "Charles W. Davidson" <wb4pan@mindspring.com> at ima
Date:    10/1/98 7:08 PM


Hi Gang,
     

The climb down the north side of Moosilauke is something to see. Very 
steep rock for a couple of miles. often pockets had been dynamited into 
the rock for you to steep in. Lots of  wooden steeps were attached to 
the rock face. I descended next to Beaver Brook all the way to Kinsman 
Notch. 


        The walk to Kinsman Shelter was the hardest I have ever done. It took
me 7 1/2 hours to do this 10 miles. I had to crawl a couple of times. 
The trail went straight up was very rocky with big rocks so it took big 
steeps to go up them. Kinsman Pond was very nice in the star light that 
night. The walk out by Lonesome Lake Hut was a lot easier. Lonesome lake 
was very pretty, with great reflections of the surrounding mountains. 

 Only 96 miles to Maine! I think I will plan on two weeks for the next 
100 miles cause they say the Whites are much harder than anything I have 
seen from Georgia to Franconia Notch.  
     
I wanna do it again
     
chase
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