Heading off-trail from "Last Sure Water" into boreal forest.
One of several slide track runouts on the floor of the valley.
More slide tracks.
A train of rocks known as a "debris flow levee" deposited along the edge of one of the tracks.
A pool on Gorge Brook.
Heading up to the lower end of Slide #6.
Lower slabs - way too wet to climb.
Climbing in steep terrain alongside the slide.
Steep slab.
Rough going ahead.
Still too slimy to ascend.
Side view of a slab.
View from a slab midway up the slide.
A lonely white pine makes its home on a brushy section.
Narrow passage.
Looking down a parallel branch of the slide.
Steep and prickly.
Peering down from the top of the slide at ~3650 ft.
View from the top, looking across the valley to the Blue Ridge.
Wide angle look at the view. There was a reasonably comfortable ledge perch from which to enjoy the vista for a while.
Moosilauke's East Peak looms above.
Starting the steep descent through the woods.
Slow and careful.
Some wild terrain in here.
Meadowsweet on the lower part of the slide.
Returning to the trail at "Last Sure Water," I went up a bit and then whacked across to one of the many old logging roads east of Gorge Brook. These date back to the 1940s when Parker-Young Co., under the direction of Sherman Adams, undertook a major logging operation to salvage timber felled by the 1938 hurricane.
The road led to a blowdown opening I had spotted on Google Earth, with a slight view up to the SE ridge of Moosilauke.
A sea of ferns below the opening.
Evening at Ravine Lodge.
