Perennial 

Hard to believe the FA goes in 08?

I agree, but, I also highly doubt that anyone would have ever soloed any of the pitches.

Looks great. Id love to get up there anc check it out.

Perennial is on the right cliff. One the trail up make sure you take the right at the intersection. Perennial doesnt go through the overlap of southern migration but up the blank face 30 feet to the right.

You have done some amazing adventuring, Bradley. I salute your spirit. Tom Bowker was relating a few stories when we were climbing the other day. One was when you intentionally spent a night in a storm on a ridge under a poncho and had to cut it from the ice in the morning to free yourself, and another how you bushwhacked in barefeet from Crawford to Franconia Notch I believe. From the sound of it, you have done more bold exploring of NH then any one else I can think of. I don't doubt your solo travels on this climb.

Thanks Mark, I don't remember the Crawford to Franconia barefoot hike and probably because it didn't hurt my feet. I did a lot of barefoot bushwhacking and the north side of Mt. Osceola hike down to the Tripoli Rd. on all those rocks was painful. The poncho was a full length anorak actually and the ridge was on Mt. Jefferson. The reason for staying out all night was because of the wind.

"To tell the truth, the first ascent went in the early 80's with a slight difference in difficulty on the lower slab (easier) because without bolts the mountain dictated my and then later our ascent direction, reasonability. It was climbed by rope to the top after it was scouted by myself up to the midway tree ledge free solo. I literally, solely got to know the lower half area of this route and more than one way up to the midway tree ledge. At this ledge the first time I moved down right to do the free solo of 'Brother Lawrence' and I free soloed this route more than once.
I always had trouble recruiting partners to climb here and hence rarely went to the top of the cliff free soloing first ascents.
Bill highly doubts my free soloing ascent of 'Perennial' and I'm not claiming to have free soloed any exactness to these pitches and I'm not disclaiming that I intersected these lower pitches. After all there's a lot of slab here. Bill knew and did leave out the fact that in this area where 'Perennial' was bolted is an old climbing area of one of my nameless ascents. To me this will always be an area of this cliff that is an old free soloing climbing area.
I waited to comment until I returned to the cliff because seeing it became remembering what and where exactly I climbed on it free solo."

Comment by bradley white on October 16th, 2011 5:42 pm