# 7:
01/22/2012 (Sunday) Kinsman N. (4293 # 28) Basin Cascade Trail to Cascade Brook Trail to Fishing Jimmy Trail to Kinsman Ridge Trail, and Return.
9.9 miles, 3177 ft elevation gain, 7:22 Book time. My time 9:00 hrs; (06:30 – 15:30) ratio = 1.22 Planned to do both Kinsmans by starting early and taking the Kinsman pond trail from the cascade brook trail but Kinsman pond trail was not broken out so I had to go to Lonesome Lake anyway and ran out of time. My set turnaround time was at noon and I was only at N. Kinsman then. On hindsight I should have gone on to S. Kinsman. Would have only added 1.8 mi, book time 70 minutes or ~ 1.5 hrs for me so I still may have been down by 1700 (just past dusk). But then again I didn’t have much left when I peaked N. K. , and my knee did go out on me on the descent, so it was probably a smart choice. I’ll probably just have to do N.K. again because there is no shorter route to just S. Kinsman. Weather was fair and clear 10-30 deg. 4-6 inches of snow off-trail. Trail was fairly well broken out but icey used HillSounder crampons most of the hike. Never tried my snow shoes. I stashed my pack and shoes shortly after Lonesome Lake. I did post-hole some on last section of Cascade Brook trail to the Lake. No other hikers on the way up but 3 groups of 2-3 going up while I was going down. Overall a very good hike. Top of N.K. has trees blocking the views but some good views of cannon going up.
{post note from October 2012: I have now done S. Kinsman (and repeated N. Knsman). I must have missed the ledge that had great views just below N. Kinsman}.
Pictures: - Not many captions. Its been too long since I took these.
Views across Lonesome Lake towards Cannon
- notice the snowshoe tracks across it.
Lonesome Lake Hut - not a great picture of it.
Solid ice on parts of the trail
Views going up to N. Kinsman
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