{"id":27,"date":"2010-01-23T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbuchholz.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2017-01-05T14:51:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T19:51:05","slug":"pierce-eisenhower-crawford-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/27\/pierce-eisenhower-crawford-path","title":{"rendered":"Mt. Pierce & Mt. Eisenhower via Crawford Path"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was planning to only do Mt. Pierce today, but when I found myself summiting it nearly an hour earlier than planned, and given the indescribably<\/em> perfect weather, I quickly found myself lumbering towards Eisenhower as well.\u00a0 Zero wind until that peak, not a cloud in the sky, and mid-teens all day.\u00a0 Sitting at the summit and staring up at Mt. Washington just three miles up-trail–it was very hard to turn back. 10 miles \/ 5 hours.<\/p>\n

\"Summit<\/a>

Summit of Mt. Eisenhower, looking up at Mt. Washington<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lessons I Learned On The Trail Today:<\/strong>
\n(1) I’m very susceptible to peer pressure on the trials.\u00a0 A mere single hiker saying, \u201cYou have to keep going to the next peak\u201d is enough to ensure I do exactly that.<\/p>\n

(2) You know that famous Robert Frost poem with the ending: \u201cTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I– \/ I took the one less traveled by, \/ And that has made all the difference.\u201d\u00a0 Yeah, that guy never hiked in the winter.\u00a0 Let me tell you, I tried taking the path less traveled, and you know what I got out of it?\u00a0 I probably spent a quarter of my day backtracking my own foot steps.<\/p>\n

(3) Give me a cup of coffee before a hike and I will fly up the mountain.\u00a0 I probably wasted a good hour taking pictures across the ridge and I still averaged 2 mph the whole hike.\u00a0 I can only imagine if I didn’t have my camera with me….<\/p>\n

\"Near<\/a><\/div>\n
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\"Presidential<\/a>

Looking down the ridge over to Mt. Pierce<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\"Presidential<\/a>

Presidential Range Trail up to Washington<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\"Crawford<\/a>

I trip and fell here. To make it look intentional, I took out my camera and took this picture.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Mt.<\/a>

Mt. Washington’s Snow Covered Summit<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Snow<\/a>

One of the hardest hikes I’ve ever had to actually head back down from<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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