Winter hiking on Mt. Lafayette, New Hampshire, USA.

  • LinuxPaysMyBills
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    1 year ago

    I still have to do Lafayette or any Whites in winter. Is it mostly spikes or need to also bring snowshoes? Presidentials has been one of my favourite hikes so far.

    • kersploosh@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      1 year ago

      I carried both on Lafayette, and on all my winter hikes in the Whites. The trail conditions can vary a lot depending on altitude, exposure to wind, recent freeze-thaw cycles, etc.

      I miss the Whites a lot. Didn’t finish bagging all the 4,000-footers before I moved away. Someday I want to go back and complete the list.

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      1 year ago

      No postholing, thankfully. We had snowshoes on for the deep sections. Up here above treeline the rocks were well covered by a few inches of settled snow and ice. If I remember correctly, we were switching from snowshoes to microspikes in this picture.