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| Owner | MITOC Gallery Administrator |
| Creation Date | 2005-06-22 22:37:11 UTC-0400 |
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Mt. Osceola Date: June 18, 2005 Location: Mt. Osceola Participants: Chris Glazner, Matt Ketterling, Erica Fuchs, Travis Simpkins Trip Report After working at Camelot on Saturday, the four of us decided to hike Osceloa the next day. We got there via the recently opened Tripoli Road, arriving at around 11 after a slow, relaxing morning. The parking lot for this popular hike was full, so we parked along the road. We got going up the trail, setting a stiff but enjoyable pace, taking a break to strip down a bit as we warmed up. The trail is well laid out. It had rained the previous two days, so there was water everywhere. Fortunately, there were many well-placed stones to avoid mud most of the time, and the going was easy. Around halfway up, we ran into a family moving pretty slow. After asking how they were doing, we discovered that the father had dislocated his arm a half hour before. The muscles in his arm had begun to contract hard, so we didn't attempt try to reset it (this is something that Erica and I learned how to do in the WFA course we both took before MITOC's Winter School). New Hampshire Parks & Wildlife had already been called, and were on their way. We recommended lots of ibuprofen and helped get the arm splinted up high with a hiking pole the man had (although there wasn't much we could really splint). None of us were the right hight to support the man on the way down (his wife and one of this daughters was), so after making sure there was nothing else we could help with, we made our way up again. After climbing past many angled slabs, we reached the summit overlook of Osceloa, with excellant views in many directions. You could clearly see Mt. Washington, and the Cog belching black smoke into the air. We stopped and had lunch for a while. We were going to bag East Osceola as well, but we wanted to give ourselves time to return some things at the Home Depot in Tilton before heading back, so we turned around. We past the family, now with a man from NH Parks & Wildlife, about a 1/4 of the way from the bottom, moving slowly just as we had seen them before (minus the splint wraps, which probably got in the way or grew uncomfortable). There wasn't much the guy could do, except offer words of encouragement. After saying hi and wishing them luck, we continued down back to out car after a few tricky stream crossings that must have been difficult for the man with the dislocated arm. |