Rattle River Winter Hike

Some Pictures of Ross and Me during our annual winter back trip trip. This Year we went backpack to the Wild River Wilderness near Gorham, NH and did the Rattle River trail up towards Mount Mariah and Shelbourn Peak .We headed out Tuesday, March 10 and hiked a few hours up the Rattle River Trail near the new;y designated Wild River Wilderness in the White Mountains near the Maine, NH boarder. We like this area because it is little used, due to it's wild character. People like roads and mechanized access and Wilderness designation prohibits that, so no snow machines, ATV's etc in these woods. Just the way we like it! Anyway, we were planning on staying two nights but woke too sleet/freezing rain Wednesday morning and high winds. Miserable weather to climb/hike on a mountain ridge. We reluctantly packed back to the trail head and called it over. Perhaps one of these years we can put together a few days of decent weather. We'll try again next year.