Jimmy, Christine and I headed north at 5:30 from Londonderry
on Sunday. Being close to the holidays, we didn’t want to be away all day. We
met Steve at the AMC Highland center and made our way to the trailhead. It was
really cold and windy gearing up, but quickly warmed up as we started climbing
and got into the trees. Snow was very packed on the monorail, so no need for
snowshoes (We all carried them just in case).
We made great time to the tree-line reaching the summit
approach in around 2 hours. We saw a pretty heavily geared up guy coming back
down and told us “it gets pretty arctic quick up there”. We decided to gear up
at that point for the very short exposed section. He was not wrong. It was
windy and very cold above the trees. The summit actually has some tree shelter
so we hung out there and got some great pics toward Washington and the other
Presidentials.
We got lucky, clouds had been blowing over us all morning
and we were pretty fogged in right before we reached the summit. It cleared just
in time.
We made it down in 3:30 (RT), and grabbed a big lunch at
Moat Mountain before heading home. My second time up Pierce, and first time since January 2012.
Pictures here
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