Mount Washington & Mount Isolation ~ October 13th, 2012

Tuckerman Ravine Trail 
 Hermit Lakes Ranger Station
 AKA 'HO-JO'
Entering the Alpine Zone 
 First aid cache at the floor of the ravine
 The bowl that makes up Tuckerman Ravine
 Water cascading down the headwall
 Lip Falls
 Tuckerman Ravine Trail travels up to the right of the wall
 Looking up at the cascading water
 Tuckerman Ravine Falls
 Lion Head and a thick undercast blanketing Pinkham Notch
 Southern Presidential Range
 Mount Monroe
 Tuckerman Ravine terminus at the auto road
 The dreaded steps, you hike up over four miles and this is the worst part!
 Davis Path / Crawford Path junction
 Fields of golden grass and well placed cairns along the Davis Path
 Looking back toward Mount Washington
 Southern Presidential Range
 Hiking towards the Boot Spur
 Davis Path southbound
 North Isolation and Mount Isolation being overtaken by the clouds
 The Davis Path gets thrashed in the winter through this sections
Leaner's and widow makers on the Davis Path 
 Mount Isolation Summit
 Isolation summit marker
 Davis Path and some rotted bog bridges
 Breaking above treeline along the Davis Path
Southern Presidential Range 
 Looking up to the Boot Spur
 Presidential Range Dry River Wilderness Boundary 
 Wildcat and Carter Range in a sea of clouds
 Wildcat 'D' Peak
 Glen Boulder Trail
 Slide Peak
 Gulf of Slides
 The undercast moving into the Gulf of Slides Ravine
 Clouds flowing into the ravine
 Glen Boulder, he's just hanging out!
 Lower section of the Glen Boulder Trail
 Direttissima Trail Junction
 The Diretissimma
 A nice little footbridge on the Diretissimma
 Overflow lot at Pinkham Notch
Pinkham Notch Visitor Center

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