Ignore the dates. We were there in Fbruary, 2008. Also the chronology is reversed - the end of the hike is first, the walk up is last. Go figure! I cant.

Glissade from the summit

Mobile phone video of me taking a glissade on the path from the summit back to Grey Knob

Ted laid out all the good hiking pics so I'll take a moment to add a little bit about this crazy winter camping thing and hut life. Ted and Jon got me into this crazy gig and I haven't been the same since. I even ventured out on a solo night hike once and stayed at the log cabin just to test the winter gear out. And I too once found it hard to understand why one would hike into zero degree weather with negative wind chill and then feel cozy about staying in a 35 degree hut. All I can say is it only takes one visit to the unspoiled hills in winter and you are hooked. As for the temperatures and wind - its all relative. Once inside
the hut it borders on balmy. Well not quite but there is a definite comfort level. And yes, you bundle up as can be seen in the pics but it is comfortable and various libations and hot liquids make so you can't even tell it is only 38 degrees. Time is passed eating, drinking, playing scrabble, eating and drinking some more, planning the hike, talking about old hikes, asking the hut mistress about where she's been, asking the other hikers if they summited that day, telling tall tales, challenging the scrabble vocabularical choices, comparing route choices, feeling
young again, wondering if the morning will be clear or stormy - you get the picture. You're in the club and that is all that matters.
"Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change? We're just eating some cheese, drinking some wine" Oddball - Kelly's Heroes

Pictured above: 1. settling in after hiking
2. getting scrabulous in the evening
3. drinking some tea, eating some cheese and pepperoni, digging how beautiful it is up here

Can't wait to do it again.
Big Johnny Moose

The rime ice on the trees at the blowdown justbefore the Quay

That's Jonathan hiking; good view of my finger in the lower part of the frame.

Lowes Path - view in the trees

The View

It's a long, cold tough hike, but you really can't beat the view, especially after earning it the hard way. This is the third time that I have made the summit of Adams in the winter, and the view this time was beyond compare. About 20 minutes later, after we were off the peak, the clouds rolled in and the windpicked up to probably over 50mph. Fortunately we were on the way back to the hut to have a bite of lunch before hiking out down Lowes Path.

The Summit 5774 feet

Jonathanm Ted and John at the summit of Adams. Mt Washington in the background.
Just above the treeline, heading to Thunder Junction

Ugly photo, but you have to do it.Wind ~ 35-40 mph, temp in the low teens - not bad!

This is the last stretch from the Junction to the summit of Adams.

Ted upside down on top.




Cellphone video clip of the summit!

MT Adams 2/17/08

View at the blow down before the Quay
The Quay - about 100yds from the Gray Knob Hut
At the Hut
Good eats - beef stew

Prepping for the summit

Mt. Adams 2/17/2008

Jonathan on Lowes Path, approaching the first blowdown.

These are cell phone camera pix!

Blue skies, lots of snow. Temps were in the single numbers

Gray Knob Hut at the treeline.

Cell phone video of hiking on the lower poart of Lowes Path.