Haystack, Basin & Saddleback Mountain

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Published 2020-03-08
After talking to Jim Wallace earlier in the week it was said that the range would be broken out. There was a small little rain that happened the night before I went and apparently that rain dropped a foot of snow over the whole range up top! So back to trail braking for me!! After Marcy skylight and Gray breakout I feel like I could do anything! Lol Getting to Haystack was very time consuming. It was very hard to follow the trail and I constantly had to pull out the GPS or else I was going the wrong way. It was definitely a big push to get up there and it took about five hours to get to the Summit from Garden parking lot! You absolutely need an axe for haystack.. in my opinion haystack was more sketchy than Saddleback this day! Haystack is one hell of a steep climb. After getting off haystack and working your way over to basin you are greeted with one of the steepest trails to any mountain summit I have climbed. Basin is just absolutely straight up crazy steep on both sides! Someone had broken out basin from Cole of haystack and basin, over basin to the inbetween big basin and little basin.. And then I was back to trail breaking as I passed the 2 people who were sitting down for lunch In the cole of one of basins false summits. It was even deeper going down basin. Anywhere between a foot and a foot and a half of snow. Got all the way down after some really fun skiing on my snowshoes and approaching Saddleback had to go up this really really steep slide that was filled with really slippery snow. Got past that and then off to the Cliffs I went. I used the axe to help assist the first section of this climb.. The sun was blazing this day and even though it was 20° the ice was melting and falling off the cliffs which gave lots of grippy surface to grab on. I took off the snowshoes and use my hillsound trail crampons! I got to the Summit and it was glorious. Three perfect views today and the best part is that I was safe! Minus the fact that I karate chopped my esophagus with my Ice axe.. as I type this out my esophagus is swollen and Extremely uncomfortable to swallow. On my way out I am a racehorse when it comes to fast walking. Maintaining a 15 minute mile for the last six. I made it out to my car in about 11 hours and five minutes car to car!! What an epic day for completing Winter high peaks number 39, 40, and 41!

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My Winter Day Pack Gear:
Shoes: Oboz Bridger
Pack: REI 40L Pack
Filmed on a IPhone XS Max
3 Rechargeable Foxelli Headlamps 180 Lumen
Oakley Flak Custom Sunglasses
Burton Goggles
Sawyer Squeeze Water Filter.
Two 64oz HydroFlask Water Bottles with Liquid IV
Hillsound Micro Spikes
MSR Evo Ascent Snow Shoes
Grivel Ghose Ice Axe
Black Diamond Trekking Poles
2 Nike Hyper Warm long sleeve base layers
Two Polyester Nike Gym pull overs.
North Face Gortex Flex GTX Rain/Waterproof Shell
Merrill Arctic Puffer Jacket
Extra Darn Tuff Winter Socks
Outdoor Mountain Research Gloves 5 Fingers
REI Mittens and Wool Liners
Outdoor Mountain Research Approach Gloves
Beanie Hat
2 insulated Pairs of polyester gym pants.
Wool long underwear.
Jet boil stove
Plastic Snow Shovel
North face insulated snow pants.
Solar Powered Battery Bank with charging cables for Headlamps, Phone and GoPro.
First Aide Kit with many diff Items including Advil, Tylenol, Luko Tape etc!
Dude Wipes and ziplock bags to pack it out!
Map/Compass Incase 2 GPS devices fail.
Food and Snacks.. Whatever I feel like eating on that hike Plus always Multiple Protein bars for when I wanna eat on the run!
All Comments (16)
  • @BrianHikesAllDay
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  • @jagrrr2279
    Very impressive you did that completely by yourself. I'm certainly not brave enough to go in the middle of the winter when I won't see anyone else completely by myself.
  • @johnshappell7440
    I was blown away with the sky as a background for all of that incredible snow scenery Brian! Unbelievable scenery, so incredibly beautiful! Thank you for another AWESOME video Brian! I loved it!
  • @Ali_E26
    Hi! Thanks for this fun an informative video. Looking to get into some winter adk hikes, and wondering what GPS you use :) Thanks!
  • @nickfield4439
    Wow Saddleback Cliffs looked way easier than when I went a month ago
  • @thomassibalski958
    KEENE — A Glens Falls man died Sunday when he had a medical problem while hiking in the Dix Mountain range in the Adirondack High Peaks Wilderness. State Police believe Andrew S. Nichols, 21, suffered a medical problem while hiking during the day Sunday on Dix Mountain.6 days ago this was last Sat. 29th
  • @dawnmills1757
    I have been waiting for this video! Hehe Congrats! You made that look easy after Marcy, Gray and Skylight!! No bloopers??
  • @DWNY358
    Another excellent video. Any reason why you have been going solo on the recent trips? Isn’t Jonathan Z doing the same winter challenge? I know you’ve joined up in the past.
  • @tdg223
    Hows your throat from the Axe? Nice video looks awesome, so much will melt this week!
  • @phillipg7315
    Early congrats on the Winter 46, you and Jonathan are gonna completely crush the Dix Range! So to hit sunrise on the last peak, Dix, you guys are starting the hike at what like 11pm the night before?