Echo II

More from Echo Crag. Getting my head back into trad. (traditional) climbing after almost a decade away from it.

Mt. Webster in the rain

Rumney repoint

Arielle Slam redpoints "Things I should have learned in kindergarten" (5.6) at Rumney, New Hampshire; Saturday, August 14, 2010.

One week's schedule

Saturday: Make fun feature photos at a mud truck rally

Sunday: Hike King ravine, Mt. Adams and Madison

Monday: recovery run to get legs working again from hiking

Tuesday: climb at Rumney

Wednesday: paddle around the Merrimack (trying for a photo)

Thursday: cook risotto

Friday: bike Rattlesnake Hill and return with wrists and ankles still functioning

repeat (or try to)

In the North Presidentials

Mt. Madison (above) and Mt. Adams via the King Ravine headwall (below).

First NH bear

He (or she) was walking down the road where we were looking for a campsite north of Fabyan's. We didn't find a spot there.

heirloom tomoato salad

A shot in my kitchen of an attempt to recreate Hot and Hot Fish Club's tomato salad using local (Yankee) ingredients.

Is the light band up top distracting?

Echo

Jen Gross climbs through the lower finger crack of VH-1



Too many climbing photos are from below with an emphasis on the butt. Getting above a climber makes a huge difference. I got that chance on Sunday at Echo Crag in Franconia Notch.