Each year there is a narrow window when the race season ends and there is still some lingering snow to be exploited. Over the last few years some of have used this time to get in our fix of the other type of skiing. Last Saturday, Maren, Riley, and I went and skied Mt. Washington for what turned out to be one of the best days of skiing I've ever had. First off the weather and conditions were amazing, which brought people in the thousands - one of the Rangers there guessed about 2500 people made the hike up that day. The combination of a high number of people there and the pretty technical level of skiing led to a ton of spectacular wipeouts in which people would slide up to several hundred yards down the bowl, almost always followed by cheers and applause from a very sizable peanut gallery, including a few Colby skiers.
After the 3ish mile hike into Tuckerman's Ravine where most of the skiing takes place, we first hiked up the main headwall into the upper snowfield and skied back down to the bottom of the bowl. Maren pretty solidly proved that she was a far better skier than Riley and I and ripped down the headwall leaving us to more cautiously make our way down. Next we hiked up almost to the summit for an awesome view of Wildcat and the Northern Presidentials. It was a great day, way cooler than I can give justice to, so here are some awesome photos we took along the way. . .
A view above the top of the headwall.
Riley and Spencer (below) climbing up the headwall.
Maren and Riley near the summit.
The three of us with the mountain in the background.
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