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| Owner | MITOC Gallery Administrator |
| Creation Date | 2004-12-22 18:30:21 UTC-0500 |
| Description | It was a beautiful day with absolutely no wind above tree-line and the views were magnificent. We started at crawford notch (clinton road) at around 8:45 and were standing atop Eisenhower by 11:30. We debated whether to bag Monroe as well, but one look at the storm moving in from the direction of Franconia changed our minds. The front was ominous and was headed straight at us. We quickly scrambled down Eisenhower loop to catch crawford path and some unbroken trail. There, we post-holed for a few hundred meters (right upto our butts) and finally reached the broken trail and made our way back down to the parking lot before the front moved in.
As a note for Winter school leaders or other trip leaders in general, this is a great intermediate/advanced above treeline trip. Crawford path is very exposed after Mt. Pierce all the way to Eisenhower, but it does periodically duck below some shrubs so there is always cover nearby. Plus there is also the bail-out trail that will take you down to clinton road from Eisenhower if the weather turns really bad. |