Ritzhikes

Where: Cascade Brook Trail, NH When: 1/29/94-1/30/94 With: Chip The previous year's aborted attempt to reach Kinsman Shelter (after I fell through the ice at a stream crossing) virtually ensured that we would try the same route again this year. We were confident that we had learned from our past mistakes and knew what to do to reach our goal. First job - get an early start up the trail and use a shorter route. I got up at 6:30, was on the road at 7, and at Chip's around 8:15. Within a short time we were driving north. We'd planned carefully and had everything we needed, so there would be no stops, not even for alcohol - a first! Everything went fine, until we reached the base of the Basin-Cascades trail (which was 0.3 miles shorter than the previous route we'd taken). The parking lot on the east side of the highway was unplowed. We continued north for quite a ways until finally finding a spot to turn around. We stopped at the west side lot and found it was also s...