Hiking plans would be much easier to create if the weather in the White Mountains was much more predictable. On this particular weekend, the weather was unclear even on the day of our hike. Our original plan was to do the classic loop over the Tripyramids, since we wanted to experience the North Slide. We decided to go on Saturday, if the weather was going to cooperate, and if it rained on Saturday, we would climb Osceola on Sunday. This was a fairly simple plan, and with the weather sites all expecting rain on Saturday all week, we figured we could safely make the assumption that it was going to rain on Saturday. Thus, we would hike Osceola. On Saturday, it turns out that it didn't rain much or at all in Waterville Valley, but it looked like it was going to rain for a little bit on Sunday. Undeterred, we departed for Waterville early in the morning. After stopping in Campton for water and bathroom trips, we left and headed up into the valley. Mt. Tecumseh was just below the cl...