Mount Washington

How much gear does it take to get up the side of a small mountain?

Northern New Hampshire is known for its four star accommodations.

Starting up the mountain.

Carmen strapped into her crampons.

It was easier walking in crampons than I thought it would be.

Carmen with her robster craws.

Trekking poles are easy to collapse until they get clogged with rime ice.

Carmen and our EMS guide Craig post summit attempt. You can see the ice that has built up in all of the seems of her clothes.

Coming back to the visitors lodge at the bottom of the mountain.

Carmen smiling at the bottom.

This is apparently the face I make when I’m pulling boots over bruised shins.

The post climb debriefing. Our guide, Craig, shows where Carmen did her kite impression and got blown all over the mountain.