Yesterday I was in Mount Washington for an Alpine climbing course with 3 clients.

The weather was perfect! Clear sky, sunny and +2C (17F), the wind was high on the Alpine garden (80km/h) but no snow was availlable for transportation.

Avalanche danger was low, with a concern for Wind slab. We fund lot of them, I test some but no one was enough firm to move has a slab. (Take not that we where on a north aspect, so colder)

The trail from Pinkham Notch to the base of Huntington Ravine is in good condition. We had firm snow to travel, microspike was useful but not mandatory. Just be careful to open hole du to the running water of the past week-end.

The Climb in the ravine was all in good shape. Lot of ice there! The remaining snow was frozing hard with trace of high runining water in the past week. Really good condition!

Alpine garden trail has a mix of rock, frozen grass and bleu ice. Wear crampon.

For the skiers, stay at home!! Nothing to ski! The Tuckerman is just in really bad shape. Rock band, ice cliff, frozing snow and the bottom is just an old avalanche depot from past week avalanche. It will need lot of snow to recover.

Have fun

Dominic Asselin
ACMG-AMGA Alpine and Rock guide
CAA Level 2 professional member