January 20, 2010
Just a small hike today, the Osceolas with Cath and Tim C. There's fresh snow in the mountains, and we wanted to get there before the weekend rush. Tim had broken out the trail the day before up to East Osceola but because of a late start wasn't able to get to Mount Osceola. We're back today to finish the job. I have picked the Osceolas as the peaks to finish my Grid in March so I joked that this was a practice run.
Cath and Tim at the start of the Mount Osceola Trail.
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Mount Kancamagus from the East Osceola slide.
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View to the north from the false summit of East Osceola.
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Looking over to Mount Osceola.
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We tagged the true summit of East Osceola and then continued over to Osceola.
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My turn to break trail.
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So who loves winter?
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Cath and Tim just before the summit of Osceola.
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Tim took my photo.
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Osceola has a fairly large summit with several points potentially the exact summit.
So team, which way do we go?
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We explored the summit a bit making sure to touch every potential highpoint.
We then returned over the same route.
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