hiker, hiker, five dollar

The Cog is easily collecting enough in parking fees on a beautiful May Saturday to pay the lot jockey's wages. When we showed up with nothing but credit cards. A friend had five dollars to bail my passenger and me out of parking oblivion. A two-foot snowfall and two days of century mark winds out of the northwest put the Tucks avalanche warnings into the "considerable" range. Those winds scoured the west side snowfields and we were able to ski the old snow surface off the summit and into the only skiable gully left in Ammonoosuc Ravine. The wind hadn't gotten to the new snow in the lower gully, but the sun had. We were shin-deep in mung down there, but Pete made it look easy. Skied out the Ammo trail to the USFS parking access spur - close enough! Thank-you Ian for the skis, the invite, and the good company: Ian, Phil and Anne Pete, the Lucy's, Briggsie.