Phase 1: Hikes completed! The story isn't totally happy end however; yesterday I realized my desktop PC blew its motherboard. Dozens of little capacitors on the old generic board were oozing various lethal chemicals, so off it went to the shop. Luckily, I had backed up all my important info AND the hard drive wasn't affected! My laptop here is being called back into service until I can get the new motherboard and CPU installed.
As for the hikes, the final summit (sort of) is shown first. East Beckwith was a noble peak, so I wore my best tie for the occasion. Though I didn't know it at the time, I ended up traversing over to West Beckwith and a few small subsidiary summits before returning to the car.
As for the snowbound picture, this is Mount Alice on a very bad day. I didn't have to summit the peak, as it was technically the first hike I tracked last October (thus I already summited it). I did have to go back to the base of the mountain to get better notes and cleaner GPS tracks, which I BARELY did. This storm was not expected or forecast, so it was a bit unpleasant to deal with. And only September!
More to come a bit later, as I now have to clean up all my gear, my car, and get ready for some nose-to-the-grindstone writin'!
