Noonmark and Giant to New Russia with Nate, Pete and Bobby
January 2017

Not much snow in St Huberts	not far, but a climb	trailside ice
ice on the trails	first great view	sun lighting ice in the trees
first view toward the great range	more trees	and icy trail
snowy	climbing	onto the summit
wide views	summit	trees
on guard	a pose	descending to a view of the ausable club
and giant	the next morning	we set off climbing giant
sense of elevation through the trees	first views of the range	chapel pond
no one on the slab	checking the view	posing
Giant's washbowl	steep climbing	steep climbing
views from the cedar gardens	careful on the ice	a short break
high peaks get clouds	more ice	and snow covered trees line the trail
	steep	ascents
more	climbing	we will come back here soon
an easy mosey	to summit, where George knows he should join any poses	Bobby in the trees
cold	switching to snowshoes	still views east
tricky descent	now the game is downward	M & M time
ice beard	descending across Rocky Peak Ridge	onto Lake Marie Louise
reaching the east shoulder of RPR	lots more to descend	staying warm
hanging	hoare	sun is getting lower
descending in deep snow	checking views	long descent
wall of ice	stray boulder	reaching bald
resting	resting	descending from bald
our house in the field	no snow on the trees, back to spikes, and soon time to turn on the headlamps