A Winter's Climb Four Climbers Find That Gear, Experience and Ambition Are the Key Factors to Taking On Katahdin During the Coldest Season
Bangor Daily News › March 28, 2011
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BAXTER STATE PARK By 1 p.m. it was decision time.
The winter gusts were fierce and we didnt want to leave the relative shelter of the boulders around us. Our chance of reaching Baxter Peak safely that day seemed rather slim.See the full content of this document
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A Winter's Climb Four Climbers Find That Gear, Experience and Ambition Are the Key Factors to Taking On Katahdin During the Coldest Season
To continue on would have entailed a two-hour hike on relatively flat but completely exposed terrain. And the 60 mph gusts similarly would have battered us as we returned on the Abol Trail.
Our wind-muted discussion was short. ...See the full content of this document
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