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Re: Quiet on the eastern front...From: Joanne Bulley, MD (islesannie@gmail.com)Sun Apr 15 21:41:23 2007
I am certain there is tons of snow on Tuck's. And will be for quite some time! http://www.timefortuckerman.com/tuckermanravinemap.html http://hikethewhites.com/tuckermans.html http://www.chauvinguides.com/hillman's.htm But you have to hike it to do it. Contact Pinkham Notch Visitor's Center and ask about conditions and who might be there to do it with. I would suggest doing it with someone who knows the area. http://www.outdoors.org/lodging/lodges/pnvc/index.cfm http://hikethewhites.com/pinkham.html When I did it, I decided I would either HIKE or SKI. Doing Tuck's means that you hike with a backpack that has some food - other essentials - your ski boots and your skis attached to the outside of the pack. Then you have to hike up a mountain that is 6288ft - at least most of the way (to about 5000 feet). Then the final part (after the lodge that is more or less at the base of Tuck's) you put on you ski boots, carry your skis in one hand and your poles in the other - and go up the final ascent (read that: STEEP) - then put ont the skis for the run down. Yes lots of that adrenalin - but if you want more than one run - you hike back up. Then when you are done - you hike back down. The one time I did it ... it had rained the night before and iced over. We hiked up and did the Hillman's highway part (the third link above). We entered around where the #2 is on the picture. The final ascent you had about 2 inches of toe hold (in your boots). Then skiied down classic New England boilerplate. Western Powder skiiers do not have a clue. I got down it ... My friend did fine then a bit of brush sticking through caught her ski and flipped her. When I (slowly) got down to where she was (by that time she was standing and actually had a smile on her face) - I asked how she was. And she (again - with a smile on her face) said she had a fractured fibula. She had had a tib/fib fracture 15 or so years before on the other leg and was a ARNP as well as an EMT. So - we didn't have to hike down. The logistics of getting her off a trail that was boilerplate (ice) onto the (less steep) trail was complex. BUT - we did not have to hikle down the mountain. We got a ride down in a CAT and then I drove her to the nearby hospital. They said "yup - its a fib fracture" - all it needs is an Ace Wrap - crutches and then go home to your own doc. So I drove her to my house. Her significant other and a friend drove up. One drove her home and the other drove her car home! But Tuck's is great even with tales like that. But it is not for the weak or timid or the average expert skier. You really do have to be a very expert skier as well as hiker in GREAT shape etc. Actually I am a much better skier than when I did Tucks / Hillman Highway (plus at that time my hgb was about 8.5 from menorrhagia and I had not yet had my hyst!) So ... having said (at that time) that I would either ski or hike - I am now ready to do Tuck's again! If you do it - have a GREAT time! But you need to really be READY for it! Joanne
At Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Rafael Haciski wrote:
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-- Joanne Bulley, MD, FACOG Solo gyn Keene, NH USA
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