Thank you for writing our trip report and thanks to everyone for being a part of the hike! It was an extraordinary day. We had a great crew, terrific visitors up top, nice weather, happy dogs, and I think a powerful memorial & remembrance.
I wish I had some information to share with you, but regrettably I do not. Neither Lafayette nor Lincoln have made contact.
In fact, the Lafayette trip leader is listed as a Lincoln participant. I didn’t catch that earlier.
Lincoln looks like a Scout group, unless they’re camping (like at Liberty Spring or the hut) there’s a good chance they’ll take the Old Bridle Path and you could catch them in the parking lot if you want to guess a time (AMC book time backwards from noon?).
We are well aware of that. Our hope is that the closed portion will be reduced during the course of this week so that there is open access to the Hancock Trailhead.
We’ll have some novices with us, plenty of gear to be sorted out to people to help carry (hopefully someone brings baked goodies for the summit???), and about a 5.6 mile, 3200′ climb (apologies if that’s wrong, I’m going from memory). Combine all that and I come up with close to 4 hours to get there, plus a quick stop at the hut, plus we want the flag up for noon. I’m thinking that feet on trail 7-7:15am is desirable. That puts the time to leave the N Twin car spot at 6:45, given the slow drive from there to Gale River. Does this sound reasonable to participants?
