Went out for a quick hike up Mount Washington on Saturday. I'm not sure how I've never seen or heard of this hike up until now, but it seemed like a nice early season hike.
The trail starts out as a real glute-burner! The trail itself is very rocky so I found myself moving fairly slowly and having to carefully watch my steps. It flattens out and becomes more stable after 0.5 - 0.75 miles or so. There were a couple of trees blocking the trail, but nothing super major or difficult to deal with.
The trail is gorgeous -- not a lot of sweeping views or anything, but winding along these rock faces makes for a really pretty hike. There was even this super cool cave that my dog kept trying to leap up into.
Around ~1700 ft of gain from the trailhead (maybe 2700ft up?) we started to run into snow. We had brought traction devices and I HIGHLY recommend doing that! The snow ends up being pretty consistent and, especially given that it was raining pretty much the whole time we were out, pretty slippery.
All in all the hike worked out as it was supposed to - early season hike just to get the legs moving and ready for some bigger targets during the summer!
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