On Rumford's Whitecap Mountain... add 2-4" of powder to a hiking trail and you've got a workout. Both of us sucked wind hiking Iles' Orange trail and paid the price in the evening. I ordered out. Even though we're hit every other day with snow, I smell spring coming. Whitecap's trail always surprises me when winter moves to spring--in a just a few days of sunshine the trail turns to dirt with 2-3' in the woods for Bailey.
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Old Speck where the AT gets tough |
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Sunday River's White Heat with NH's Presidential Range in the distance. |
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The path to Bailey's Cairn |
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Sunday River's White Heat |
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15 degrees with the wind. |
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On the summit awaiting treat and dreaming of his Kong |
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This just can't be good for him. |
I traded texts and photos with brother Rob on my Whitecap hike. He and Anne were at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles while Anne received injections to combat her ALS. On my little four-and-a-half miler, I thought of Anne's big-mountain treks out west, including San Jacinto Peak at 10,804'. I hope she has good memories of those climbs. I laughed thinking about Rob joining her for a hike of Mt. Baldy just above Upland, Claremont, and Pomona, my old stomping grounds during graduate school at Claremont. From his texts, I could tell, as the bumper sticker proclaims: I'd rather be golfing.
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Anne Kent, San Jacinto Peak at 10,804' |
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San Jacinto Peak
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