Posts tagged 'alpine'

• The Eaglet via the West Chimney (5.7) - August 7, 2015

  I’ve been wanting to take a day off work and do some really classic New Hampshire trad climbing. For a while we’d been talking about doing Weissner’s Dike on Cannon, but we decided that perhaps six pitches might be a little much for our first outing in Franconia Notch. After talking with Mike at the gym, we decided that a better trip would be the Eaglet, a free standing rock spire (perhaps the only one in New Hampshire?) by the west chimney route. This would be a three pitch adventure up a very old route.

• Mt. Washington via Henderson Ridge (5.4) - June 20, 2015

  Elsewhere on this site, I’ve discussed how this was not going to be a place where I would discuss every single hike I went on, since there are plenty of places to get that kind of information. Instead, I was going to post more about lesser visited places and multi-sport adventures. Despite how busy Mt. Washington can be on a sunny summer day, our ascent still managed to fit these criteria perfectly.