Six of us started on the infamous triple biscuit loop out of the Biscuit Brook TH. A long slog up to S-DT, with two Brook crossings, wearing micro spikes and carrying our snowshoes. Before the final series of climbs four decided to switch to snowshoes with the snow getting deeper. Mimi and I stayed with the spikes to be more lighter and nimble of foot. While they switch foot gear I broke trail up to the summit allowing them easier navigation.
After a quick break we descended down a few levels to begin our traverse to Pigeon Peak and onto the P-W trail. At this point Susan called it a day, tiring already, and took the trail back to the TH. Now the five of us had a short stroll to the herd path up to Big Indian to find our first canister of the day.
To get to Fir we simply followed the tracks from a friend of ours(Maple) who did a different hike out of Biscuit Brook TH. Somehow we managed to get onto some other set of tracks that wandered around a lot but at least got us to our third and final peak.
Much more traffic up to Fir, in recent days including today, so we had a nice winter “sidewalk” down off of Fir back to the P-W trail. Didn’t take long for the snow to thin out with the bare ground or leaves showing through. Now the snowshoes were overkill but they waited till we hit the trail to switch back to spikes, while Mimi and I continued on ahead of them.
Back to the cars with 12 miles and over 12 hours of walking racked up….a full day for sure.