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| no partners | | New York always beats Boston except in Seafood. My dads family was from Boston and my moms family was from New York before they both moved to CT. I hated everything Boston and loved everything New York and still do. What does any of that have to do with hiking? Harvard(Boston) vs. Columbia(New York).
I was gonna save the best for last but since New York is number one I decided to do Columbia first. Most people do Harvard then Columbia. The first 3.5 miles is the same either way and it was awesome. Hiking along water thru forest and not much aeg in that 3.5 miles. The total polar opposite of yesterday. So I decided on the talus ascend first. It got old fast and I was glad after about 1k of gain they started to throw in some switchbacks. Total aeg from TH to Columbia was 4,300 in 5.75 miles. I didn't see another soul on route and then saw two people on the summit. They had come up the other side. I did the west slopes. The route I choose off Columbia was good for awhile and then I had to improvise which worked out but there were a couple of scary traverses. When I started climbing back to the ridge, I saw three people heading over to Columbia and they pointed to the route and I said no thats not it. And explained what to do but I'm not sure they had a clue. Then about .5 miles later I run into another guy who doesn't know the route and is following the other group. I hope they made it ok because things weren't sounding well.
Harvard had a few summit areas that I climbed around on. I almost took a bad line and I quickly stopped. It was scarier than the Cheops move with moving rocks. I found a nice tame class 3 which only lasted a short time and then it was nice trail down. This would be a backpackers paradise for the first 3.5 miles to Horn Creek Basin. |
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