Jackson Rush + Some Red Hill

31 Dec 2010 Leave a Comment

For our first snow ascent of the 2010/11 season we went up Mt. Jackson via the Webster-Jackson trail on the 30th. The weather was awesome and the two feet of snow was pretty and the state of the trail, fully broken by lots of snowshoes, was great, but it wasn’t all that spectacular. The best part of the hike was seeing a gray jay & feeding him & getting some pretty good video of it. Jackson is wooded the whole way up to the summit & not that steep so – ho hum. There is one little cliff spur with a view about 1/3 of the way up & that’s it. This was a first outing with lots of new gear:

MSR EVO snowshoes are excellent – great traction and nice binding system. We were not moaning about NOT dropping the extra $100 on the EVO Ascents though I understand how the little lift bar would be nice to have. I figure we’ll stay happy as long as we never borrow a pair ascents & stay dumb about how great they are.
The Go Pro HD Hero camera is really cool, but don’t expect to take pics and video as good as the demo stuff right out of the box! We need to get better at several aspects of the video stuff – see our early videos as evidence.