Re: [at-l] Trip Report

["Alice Kauzlarich" <kauzlar@madison.main.nc.us>]

Sounds like someplace I'd wanna slackpack.
I don't know if I could go without food!

 The Highlander

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> From: Thomas McGinnis <tmcginnis@ucclan.state.in.us>
> To: at-l@backcountry.net; Charles W. Davidson <wb4pan@mindspring.com>
> Subject: Re: [at-l] Trip Report
> Date: Friday, October 02, 1998 10:10 AM
> 
>      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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