New Faces Three new guys joined the 2007 crew: Adam Pollack, Jeff Wasik and Matt Robinson. Pollack was happy about his first trip despite not making the summit. On the previous two trips he was supposed to come along, but kept getting injured prior to leaving. So far his luck is really staying true. Jeff and Matt both had fun even if they didn't see the summit. All three agree that 2008 will be that much sweeter when they stand at 6288 feet. We'll be back Despite how the 2007 trip ended everyone vowed that we'd have our revenge in 2008. Hardships aside, a good time was had at Delaney's for dinner and some brews. That was followed up by smoking cigars and some poker. See you in 2008: WE GO (to the summit)!!!

DEFEATED! August 2007 - It was bound to happen; with six years of click to enlarge great weather on our hikes the bill was coming due. Oh boy, did it cost us. The summit conditions on Saturday afternoon were 35 degrees with 69 mph sustained winds giving a wind chill of 10 degrees. Throw rain on top of all that and we had a perfect storm of bad weather. The day dawned bright and sunny at Attitash, we all figured the forecasts might be a bit off so we set out. At Pinkham Notch the sky was gray along the mountain, the wind whipping and a nice chill in the air. Despite all that, A shout of "WE GO" was given the 2007 hike began. For the first hour it was one of our better go around. The new guys kept up a brisk pace. Both Bokon and Craig pulled far ahead of everyone. Upon reaching Tuckerman's ravine things went downhill. Craig and Bokon were nowhere to be seen, they had pushed on in a race to the top. For the rest of us, the rain started to kick in and one of the Park Rangers warned us (click here for video) about going any farther. He pretty much told us that we'd get hurt pretty bad if we went any father. Did we listen? No, we pushed on. Once past the alpine zone the weather became too much as wind and ice cold rain buffeted everyone. Figuring our lives are more precious and that the mountain was going to be there next year; a vote was taken at the first aid station. The vote was unanimous, turn back till 2008. True Men Ten men started out, only two made it to the top. Adam Bokon takes home his first championship as he plowed on to the top ahead of Craig. Adam made amazing time, speeding up Tuckerman's ravine in 2 and a half hours while being slammed by wind and ice cold rain. Craig, despite losing two years on a row was very happy he's alive. He chose the Lion's Head trail for his ascent. As he climbed to the top of a ridge the wind almost knocked him back. Pretty frightening when you consider that if it did he would have had a nasty drop to (most likely) his death. Lions Head had such terrible conditions that Craig was the only person on that part of the mountain. His glasses fogged, he had to feel his way around portions of the trail when the visibility fell to near zero. Hats off to these two guys!