Here are a few photos from another hike up in the white mountains, this time a loop on Mt. Moosilauke. Though I have hiked this one in the past, it has been a while. On top of that, I choose a new route this time. I got started at a reasonable time and steadily worked my way up the east ridge following some bare boot tracks almost the whole way. Once I arrived at top of the ridge I hit the Appalachian Trail which, thankfully, had a much more even set of snowshoe tracks.
From there it was a straight forward climb to the summit. Once I broke above the treeline I was greeted with a frozen tundra landscape of scrubby grass, a dusting of snow, and a very very icy trail. The wind was gusting pretty hard, and encouraged me to quickly make my way over the summit and down the south slope of the mountain towards the car.
The rest of the descent was pretty uneventful. All in all it was a fairly typical winter climb, if a little quiet. Definitely not a bad way to spend a Sunday afternoon!
