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| Owner | Patrick Allen |
| Creation Date | 2008-04-09 22:23:18 UTC-0400 |
| Description | 4/6/2008 Yeuhi Abe and Patrick Allen Skiing Lincoln Brook Slide, East face of Mt. Lincoln Yeuhi and I had a little adventure on Mount Lincoln...The original plan was to skin up the Falling Waters trail and then diverge up the Dry Brook to access some good-looking South and West facing gullies. The dry brook was flowing open, however, which we kind of expected anyway, but after a little bushwhacking we realized it was going to be unreasonable to get up to the gullies. I mentioned that there was a gully up on the Pemi-side of the ridge that I thought would ski pretty well, and Yeuhi seemed to like the idea. We figured we had two options: bail to the car and go hit Cannon, or keep going up. Not wanting to go all the way down then relocate, we took the latter. The snow was grippy and we were able to skin all the way up to the ridge, making good time until we had to shoulder our skis for the traverse/ascent of the peak of Lincoln. The weather was cloudy and breezy but not cold, and we got some funny comments from hikers. Around this time I started feeling really out of it, like I had some flu coming on, and we had to cross further over on the ridge than I had remembered (the last time I had been up here was a low-grade whiteout). Eventually we found what we were looking for, just as the weather mellowed out and I felt better: a broad, snowy face with to major gullies descending straight into the Pemi, forming the top of lincoln Brook. Steppign into our skis right at the ridge at 1:45, we picked through some crusty krummoltz down into the main part of the gully, which was very good corn though it could use a few more freeze/thaw cycles to become perfect. Skied down maybe 900 vertical, then skinned up to the ridge again by 2:50. On the rocky, icy, one mile traverse back to Falling Waters I started hitting the wall again, and it took about an hour. Luckily the weather was pretty and it was really pleasant being up there, except for unique experience of being totally exhausted and knowing there is over 3000 feet of steep, narrow trail between you and your car. For the most part, the descent was misery, sideslipping and sitzmarking down the Falling Waters trail, unfortunately slaughtering quite a few saplings and getting our faces thwacked by branches. Yeuhi took the punishment like a man while I showed all the composure of a 7 year old girl who didn't get a pony for Christmas. Eventually we came out to the car, having not seen a soul since before we started skiing the gully. In the end, most of the descent was made with our skis in our hands or on our packs. Fun Summary --ascent, type 2 --skiing the gully and skinning back up, type 1 --descent, type 3 --report by Patrick Allen |