Saranac 6 Winter 4/6 with Kim.

Beautiful pink sunrise on the road today driving up. Trailhead not plowed and in rough shape. Managed to squeak in with my Subaru and was fine.

We got on trail just about 07:30, we wore snowshoes all day and were comfortable. The trail was well-packed the entire way today minus the last portion of the walk on the ridge of the mountain from snow blowing and drops from the trees. The temperature was showing -2° on my watch for the ascent, but we had no wind to deal with and bright blue skies and sunshine were a tease through the thick trees.

The first two miles went quickly through beautiful forest with crazy tall trees, mostly flat. The uphill was steady and somewhat steep. Once we got up on the ridge we slowed down significantly pushing through heavy snow laden tree branches and losing motivation knowing there was no stellar view ahead of us. We reached the summit disc after about 2.5 hours of hiking, had some snacks and headed back down to the viewpoint. Took some photos & then took our sleds off our packs for some premium sledding to descend.

All day we saw tons and tons of rabbit tracks in the snow, but alas, no bunny sightings for us. The only other hikers we saw was a couple headed in when we were back on the flats on our way out. We made it back to the car a little over 2 hours from leaving the summit and headed to Big Slide Brewery for some Ubu Ale and poutine, then stopped in Keene at the Birch Store to pick up some little odds and ends. Another wonderful mountain day. :-)