10-20-2018 Climb

For this morning's hike up Mt. Monadnock, I used the Pumpelly Trail. With early afternoon plans, that meant and early start to get this hike in using the longest trail on the mountain. Today's forecast was for clouds early in the day with some clearing later. That proved to be accurate as I hiked in the clouds a lot once gaining elevation and could only see 100-200 feet most of the time. The temperature at the summit was 42 degrees, but the 27 mph average wind (31 mph gusts) made for a wind chill of just 29 degrees. Overall the hike was 8.63 miles with a total of 2,867 feet of elevation gain