Excellent video!! Capturing the moments while climbing the challenging sections and enjoying the utmost beauty of nature is not an easy task. I hope people get inspired to spend more time outdoors!!!
I haven’t done Huntington Ravine before but I’ve been snowboarding on Tuckerman Ravine many times. Amazing place. My wife and I plan to hike Jewell trail for our first actual summit of Mt. Washington this year.
Seems like youtube is really lowering the quality of 1k videos. Annoying. Finally got up there yesterday and loved it, now I'm watching videos to relive it! Great video Neal!
Hey Neal, great video, really captures the actual terrain of Huntington. The camera never seems to do that for me. I use my Samsung for the footage and do it for the same reasons you mentioned. That pinnacle head wall, especially when wet, can be a thriller. Once got behind a threesome two guys and a girl, the bf was trying to push the gf but she was frozen and crying. She inched her way. We finally went past them at the bottom of the headway, always what happened to them, bc it doesn't get any easier going up it. I think I'm the 956th follwer🎉 look forward to more videos from the "White Mountain Wanderers" See you up there someday. Major Dave out🫡
Nicely done -- both climb and video. Your video does a nice job showing that this is absolutely doable. There are plenty of similarly difficult passages on many trails in the Whites, but they are shorter and less exposed. If exposure freaks you out to the point where you freeze up, this trail is not for you. Go to a climbing gym, get on an auto-belay and do some 5.6 routes (the rank beginner routes) and get used to heights. Then come back and it will feel like a piece of cake.
@@whitemountainwanderers9365 i agree 100% -- sorry to give that impression. It is Class 3, not Class 5 and doable technically for anyone who doesn't freak out because of the exposure. What I was trying to convey is that I personally USED to be be freaked out by exposure, but I got over it by signing up for a basic belay course at a climbing gym. During my first class, the adrenaline was pumping -- by the fifth and final class I was completely over my fear. session. This may not be the right recipe for others with fear of heights, but it worked for me.
@@marcohanig4589 , I completely follow what you are saying I think that is a good idea. We freestyled the caps going off the Jefferson Caps Trail and my girlfriend froze up, as there was a tough technical part off the trail on the second cap we were doing, I was behind her and felt my anxiety go up to be honest. While it was all do-able for someone athletic, any slip could have been fatal or injury prone. I feel like if we had done some rock climbing there would be no worries, good idea!
