Major thanks to Bob Sagusti, Bob Walker, and John Vranich for photo contributions !!!!!!
 

Thanks to Greg Clark, C.T. Edwards, Laura Gabanski, Bob Sagusti, Brian Skrenta, Bob Walker, Mark Miller, Stuart Miller, Anne-Marie Shipley, Carl Cherwek, Kathi Durning, Tim, John Vranich, Brian Vogel, Barb Vogel, Kim Vogel, and the other John for participating in the expedition !!! Great job everyone !!!
 

NOTE 1: There are alot (about 100) pictures on this page... each image is a compressed JPEG between about 30 and 60 kbytes in size... if you have dial-up internet access it may take awhile for all the pictures to download and display... take a break and check back in 15 or 20 minutes

NOTE 2: The following pictures are roughly in chronological order... Since they were taken by various people who did various things at various times they are not strictly chronological but rather are grouped sortof thematically (i.e. - training hike first, then Pinkham Notch in the morning, hiking up the trail, entering the bowl, getting ready to ski, climbing up the ravine, looking down from high points, skiing down, hiking back down the trail, partying afterwords, the next day at Sunday River, and finally in the airport getting ready to leave NH)... Also since it was a massive job just to get these pictures scanned and loaded on to the website, I didn't spend any time trying to crop them or change the colors, etc... maybe someday I'll come back and improve some of them (computer image processing can do some amazing things) but not now
 

On with the show...
 

Bob's Hill Training Hike - April 9, 2000

Training hike at Bob's Hill, Catoctin Mountains, MD...
(left-to-right) Laura, Bob S., Mark, Stuart, Bridget, Brian S.
 

Training hike... snow on the ground !?!... in April !?!?!... in Maryland !?!?!?!
 

Training hike... summit of Bob's Hill... the first time
(left-to-right) Bob S., Stuart, Laura, Mark, Allen, and Brian S.
 

Training hike... summit of Bob's Hill... the first time (different camera)
(left-to-right) Bob S., Stuart, Laura, Mark, Allen, and Brian S.
 

Training hike... view from north overlook on Bob's Hill
 

Training hike... Brian S. doing the limbo
 

Training hike... nice view !!!
 

Training hike... Is this why they call 'em "rock skis" ???
 

Training hike... view from south overlook on Bob's Hill
 

Training hike... Bob S. self portrait after summitting Bob's Hill a second time !!!
 

Training hike... Mark and Stuart reach summit of Bob's Hill a second time !!!
 

Old Man Of The Mountain - April 14th, 2000

"The Old Man Of The Mountain" viewing area
 

The Old Man himself
 

"Old Man Young Man"... Bob S. models for restorations being done to the rocky face
 

Brain S. poses in front of the stony faced dude
 

Brian S., Allen, Stuart, and Mark in "The Old Man" parking lot
 

Summit Morning - April 15, 2000

Summit Day !!! ... walking in from the auxiliary parking lot
 

Pinkham Notch entrance...
(left-to-right) Stuart, Bob W., Brian S., Bob S., Mark, and Allen
 

Getting ready to go... Kim, Brian V., and John ?... almost the last we'd see of them all day... can you say "fast"
 

"Most of" The Group...
(front row left-to-right) Bob S. and Stuart
(back row left-to-right) Brian S., Bob W., Anne-Marie, Laura, Mark, Allen, Greg, C.T., John V.
(further back on right) Tim and Kathi
(missing from picture, already on the trail) Brian V., Kim, and John ?
(missing from picture for reasons unknown) Carl
 

Son of "Most of" The Group...
(front row left-to-right) Bob S. and Stuart
(back row left-to-right) Brian S., Bob W., Anne-Marie, Laura, Mark, Allen, Greg, C.T., John V.
(further back on right) Tim and Kathi
(missing from picture, already on the trail) Brian V., Kim, and John ?
(missing from picture for reasons unknown) Carl
 

The Hike Up (Part 1) - April 15, 2000

We're off !!!
 

No snow down low here... Brian S. leads on
 

Still goin' up
 

Now we're talkin' snow
 

Rest Stop... Stuart, Mark, Anne-Marie, and Brian S. (in the shadows)
 

Rest stop... who are those half-naked guys ? ... crazy Europeans !!!
 

Bob S., John V. and a glimpse of a view
 

Cascade at the bridge
 

Cascade at the bridge (different camera)
 

Allen and John V. (a.k.a. "Mr. Sled Carrier") on the bridge
 

Bob S., Mark, and C.T.
 

Stuart et al trudge on
 

"This is the part where it flattens out"... yeah right
 

HoJo's (a.k.a. The Snow Ranger Cabin) - April 15, 2000

Finally, HoJo's !!!
 

The HoJo scene
 

More HoJo happenings
 

C.T., Greg, Laura, and Bob W. on the deck at HoJo's... Tuckerman Ravine in the background
 

Hikers leaving HoJo's
 

The Hike Up (Part 2) - April 15, 2000

Laura and Allen start out on the trail again from HoJo's... "You mean there's more !?!"
 

Tuckerman Ravine as seen from near HoJo's
 

Hillman's Highway... there are a few "ants" about halfway up the climb
 

The icy part of the trail... and it's really starting to get windy !!!
 

We're getting close now... on the left is the first of several first-aid and rescue caches in the ravine
 

Bob S. near the bowl
 

"BE ICE SMART !!!"
 

For those who missed the signs, friendly Mr. Ski Patroller fills us in on today's conditions and hazards
 

"We've already had two avalanches today."... "You probably saw the one that just happened."... "If anyone had been underneath that they easily could have been burried"... WOW !!! This is the real deal !!!!!
 

An Afternoon In The Bowl - April 15, 2000

Avalanche track in the center of the bowl and (much less distinct) on the right
 

People continue to ascend right next to the avalanche track... "Lunch Rocks" is seen to the right of center... where's the mystery sax player hiding ?
 

"Our rock"... and it's lunch time... not to be confused with "Lunch Rocks" which is on the other side of of the bowl underneath lots of hanging ice
 

Click here to see my first attempt at stiching together the next 5 pictures into a panorama.

Panorama of the Tuckerman Ravine (part 1 - far left)
 

Panorama of the Tuckerman Ravine (part 2 - left center)
 

Panorama of the Tuckerman Ravine (part 3 - center)
 

Panorama of the Tuckerman Ravine (part 4 - right center)
 

Panorama of the Tuckerman Ravine (part 5 - far right)
 

Getting ready to ski
 

A line of "ants" (or is it lemmings ?!?) ascending above "Lunch Rocks"
 

Two avalanche debris piles (the "one we saw" is in the foreground and the one from the morning is in the middle)
 

Left side of the bowl, the view from "our rock"
 

Starting the climb to "the top"... that's Laura taking on the bowl in the very center of the picture
 

"The Big Rock" is on the left... due to the "easy-climbin' stairstepped snow", it only took 5 or 10 minutes to climb that high this year (the previous 2 years it was more like 20 to 30 minutes)
 

Looking down from "The Big Rock"
 

Bob S. looks down "The Chute" before jumping in... Brian S. (second climber down) leans against the 45+% slope
 

Bob S. in "The Chute"
 

Bob S. still in "The Chute"
 

Looking down from way up high in "The Chute"
 

Looking further up "The Chute"... will it ever end ?!?
 

Stuart humping the rocks on the snowfields... it did feel really great way up there !!!
 

Some guy retrieves his ski boot that almost slid over the edge into oblivion
 

The snowfields (or rockfields depending on the season) that lead up to the summit of Mount Washington
 

Click here to see my first attempt at stiching together the next 2 pictures into a vertical panorama.

Vertical Panorama of view from "the top" (part 1 - top)
 

Vertical Panorama of view from "the top" (part 2 - bottom)
 

Allen at "the top" with the summit of Mount Washington in the background
 

Allen at "the top" with the summit in the background (landscape version)
 

Life at "the top" as recorded by Bob W.
 

Awesome !!! ... We'll be skiing that shortly !!!
 

Greg relaxes at "the top"
 

Bob W. et al contemplate going over "The Lip"
 

Allen looks down one of the steeper parts of "The Chute"
 

The bowl as seen from the safety of "our rock"... Wow !!! We just skied that !!!
 

John V., Carl, and Anne-Marie looking refreshed and happy after an afternoon in the bowl
 

Time to go back down... Bob S., Allen, Stuart, Brian S., and Mark gear up
 

One last shot before we go...
(left-to-right) Anne-Marie, Bob S., Allen, John V., Brian S., Stuart, Carl, and Mark
 

The Hike Down - April 15, 2000

The trail down... Wildcat Ski Area across the valley
 

Celebration - April 15, 2000

Phew... We made it (up and down) !!!...
(left-to-right) Allen, Mark, Stuart, and Brian S.
 

Partying in the Pinkham Notch parking lot... Brian S. sucks on the martini bag
 

More partying...
(left-to-right) Stuart (just took a hit from the martini bag - trying not to gag), Tim, Kathi, Anne-Marie, John V., Mark, and Carl
 

Sunday River Ski Resort - April 16, 2000

Sunday River... C.T. at the bottom of "White Heat"
 

The Sunday River crew...
(left-to-right) Laura, Brian S., C.T., Greg, Bob S., Stuart, and Mark
 

Sunday River... Greg on White Heat
 

Sunday River... Brian S. in the bumps
 

Sunday River... Mark on SnowBlades doing the bumps on "White Heat" !?!
 

Sunday River... C.T. rips 'em up
 

Sunday River... Ominous clouds but we didn't get a drop of rain all weekend !!!
 

Sunday River... Brian S. on "White Heat"
 

Sunday River... Stuart skied carrying a pack and extra SnowBlades !!! ... It was a piece of cake after doing Tuckerman's the day before
 

Manchester Airport - April 16, 2000

Airport at Manchester, NH... fun with Tuckerman Pale Ale
 

Laura and Greg get ready to check their baggage
 

More airport fun... who says you can't get beer and tortilla chips (and crampons and the martini bag) through the x-ray machine and past security