We pushed the planned Saturday hike to Sunday on account of a Friday night snowstorm. I didn’t get more than 3” in Ipswich but Fred said they couldn’t have gotten out of their driveway until they were ploughed out so they wouldn’t have made it.  So it all worked out. Six of us (Matt, Russ, Jim, Fred Mo and I) headed up to Waterville Valley on Sunday morning to hike up Mt. Tecumseh (4003'), about 5 miles round trip. The weather was perfect, sunny, no wind, 14 degrees in the morning but mid 30s by the time we returned to our cars.

We used the Mt. Tecumseh Trail and headed off around 8:30am. Jim snowshoed the whole hike, the rest of us used micro spikes, but Russ did snowshoe on the way down. The trail was very well packed. About half way up we side stepped left to a viewpoint off the trail where you can see the Waterville Valley Ski slopes. We continued upward where the actual workout really begins. Everyone kept the good pace, I was the reason we stopped a number of times (water, de-layer, etc.). We got to the summit in an hour and 1/2.  

The view from the summit was specular; the pix do not do it justice. We descended the same way we came up, a true in and out hike. Lots of friendly hikers and a number of awesome dogs. We were back at the parking lot around noon. Most of us stopped at the Mad River Tavern in Campton (on the way back to the highway) where the burgers and fries were good but frankly I had one of the worst salads I’ve ever eaten (play to their strong points- when will I ever learn?). But the tall, 24 year old identical twin waiters Josh and Nate made up for my less than stellar meal.  All around great GO hiking day!!

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