| Old School - Climbing Mt Washington for the first time |
In honor of our fifth climb up Mt Washington I dug up some old pictures, scanned them in and dusted
off the old memory to put our first trip on the web.
Salemi remembered a guy at work had one of those "This car climbed Mt. Washington" stickers on his
car and it gave him an idea. He mentioned it to Shridhar at a party at Paul Harvey's place,
and the next week Shridhar was making the plans...and the rest is history.
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The crew, sans Shridhar, at the base camp. Top: Dean, Craig. Bottom: John, Rich, Kirk, Duane, Paul.
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Climbing up for the first time, no one had any idea what to expect. Notice the lack of camelbacks
and other equiptment that has become standard.
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The first trip was a bit rainy on the way up, little did we know what to expect...
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| The fog got worse as we got further up the mountain, and the rain
started to fall harder.
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| By the time we made it to the top we could barely see and monsoon was brewing...
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| After waiting out the weather we headed down the access road. Some of us had
small issues with the chilli they ate at the top.
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| Craig made it up the mountain first and he is barely winded as we are
all ready to pass out.
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| Soon... Beer... And food... Little did we know that this would become our tradition.
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