by Ben
Elias and I went up to New Hampshire Friday night and climbed Mount Washington Saturday morning. We had a great hike. It took us ~3:30 on the way up and ~3:10 on the way down with a nice lunch stop at the top (hot dog and chili hit the spot!). This is Elias second trip […]
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by Ben
Four two three four… What’s that? That’s how much vertical I was able to ski in one run Saturday. It’s also my personal record for single longest run ever for me, including when I lived out west. I was able to get up north for one last weekend of skiing with David Simms and David […]
Categories: blog, gear, personal, photography, scapes, skiing, Weekend Fun! • Tags: jay peak, mountwashington, tuckermans
by Ben
Finally made it up Mount Washington with Nikki! She and I haven’t been able to hike together since we lived in Montana! She’s been, I’ve been, just not together. So she and I put Mount Washington on the calendar for last weekend and finally made it! We made it to the summit via Lion’s […]
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by Ben
Made it up to Mount Washington/Tuckerman’s Ravine/Hillmans highway last week. We set out to possibly go all the way to the top with plans to ski the ravine on the way back down. Avalanche conditions were considerable (3 out of 5) with wind load on frozen slush with zero visibility up high so we went […]
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by Ben
Went up to Mount Washington yesterday for a quick hike. I had some things to test and review and also wanted to get out for a hike. I managed to make it up lions head to the summit in 2:07 and the round trip coming down tuckerman’s was 4:02! Enjoy the images:
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by Ben
Trying to keep up on weekly posts again in 2013! These are from Thursday and Friday around the house with the kids, then Saturday hiking Mount Washington with my buddy Dave Simms. Kids are doing great and getting BIG (especially Bella)! Hiking was fun in the cold. Enjoy!
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by Ben
So I obviously posted about climbing Mount Monroe already this weekend here. But that was just the best images from the trip like I usually do with my landscape outings. With this trip though it was an overnight at the lake of the clouds hut with a lot of hiking around so I’ve got a ton […]
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by Ben
Well, I finally got up on/around Mount Washington for a good/great sunrise. This was actually taken OF Mount Washington FROM the summit of Mount Monroe. You can see the lake of the clouds as well. I was lucky enough to get a free nights stay at the hut from my buddy David Simms. I jumped […]
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by Ben
Mount Washington open’s it’s auto road for sunrises 3 times a year. I learned that last week, and this Sunday just happened to be one of the days… So David Howland and I hopped in the MINI late Saturday night and headed up to see what sort of fun we could have. We got there around 2:30am […]
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by Ben
I think I’m hooked. I left the house at 10pm last night, drove to pinkham notch, slept in the parking lot for a few hours then hit the trail at 5am in hopes of bagging a sunrise over the ravine. Yeah, mother nature had other ideas….. but I still went for a great hike! […]
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by Ben
Well, I finally got to ski Tuckerman’s this season! It was my fourth trip up in winter and I got four runs in. We were working on the same PBS project I’ve been working on all winter so we hiked with a group and had a lot of fun. I skied left chute then icefall […]
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by Ben
Well, Isabella can now pull herself up using the crib or couch or just about anything else. She’s getting VERY mobile in a hurry. Still no teeth (and she’s exactly 11 months old as I type this). We keep thinking they’re coming, but nothing yet. Elias is quickly approaching his 4th birthday. We’re all […]
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by Ben
Dave and I tried to make it to Tuckerman’s again this past weekend. The weather was terrible (100+ MPH winds at the summit) and the avalanche conditions were even worse thanks to the rain that came Friday then froze on the surface. We still hiked up a bit (I skinned, he hiked) before officially […]
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by Ben
yeah, but still not enough to ski… Dave and I went up to Tuckermans Ravine Saturday the 10th. We had great plans of an epic sunrise over the ravine as well as hermit lake. We left RI at midnight and Dave drove us “through the night” getting there at 4am. We then hiked in in […]
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by Ben
The f-stop loka is a hell of a backpack. That’s ignoring it’s ability to haul cameras. This is just one hell of a great backpack first, then it has this awesome system to add inserts into it specifically designed for cameras (f-stop calls these “ICU”s or internal camera units). I’ll get to that more in […]
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