Hi and
welcome back!
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| Reading Camp Presentation |
Before I
get to my Mt. Washington climb, I want to tell you about a presentation I did
two weeks ago. I was invited to speak at a nearby town's elementary
school reading camp!
I put
together a slide show of pictures from my year in the tent and my Royal Arches
climb, and also the Royal Arches video. I also set up our family's L.L. Bean
tent that I spent the last few weeks of 2013 in.
It was a
lot of fun, and I want to thank Ms. Robins for inviting me to give the
presentation!
Now on to
my Mt. Washington climb.
My dad and
I started at Pinkham Notch Visitors Center at about 9:45 a.m. For over half of the 4.2 mile ascent, we were
climbing a pretty steep, REALLY rocky trail.
It was pretty hard on our knees.
After that,
we took a turn where the Lion’s Head trail comes off the Tuckerman Ravine
trail. From there it was scrambling in
fairly thick woods. That led us above
treeline.
We took a
few pictures at the summit sign, then went into the visitors’ center and got
lunch.
We
descended the Tuckerman Ravine trail, which actually goes down into the ravine,
then connects with the main, steep, rocky trail.
We started the descent on the same scramble
we had just climbed up (the Lion’s Head and Tuckerman Ravine trails are the
same there). Then we continued into the
ravine. It was VERY steep, and we had to
switch back down the trail, which was only about 6 feet wide in places.
Part of the
way down the ravine, we ran into some snow that was at about 5,000’. Meltwater had hollowed the snowfield out
underneath, and there were caves that were big enough to crawl into (although that
would have been dangerous).
From there
we continued down onto the rocky trail again, which took us back to the
visitors’ center at Pinkham Notch. It
was just about 8 hours round trip, and REALLY tiring.
I think our
next high point will be New Jersey, but first we’re hoping to do some climbing outside!
Thanks for reading!
