(NJ-CT-) Massachusetts: Mount Greylock (-NH-RI)

Mount Greylock in Massachusetts have a road for drive-up access, however that road was closed during the evening that I arrived in the area, since the towns around have nice weather I stayed around for the following day hoping that the gates for the scenic roads would be open.
Unfortunately the roads remained closed, and the next best option was a hike of about 7 miles.

The conditions I found of the roads was completely ice covered! any type of driving except very god ice-chains would have been very dangerous on the twisting and turning roads. So it was a very good decision to keep the roads closed off. Even just walking on the ice with poles was very hard and any wind gust could topple you over quickly.

 Just before the top is a small lake which had frozen and looked very idyllic in the nice weather.
The monument on the top together with signs, roads, trees, grass, and just about everything else was covered in ice. Wind was also blowing mostly on the summit.

I got lucky with some holes in the cloud cover during the minutes on the summit, and nice views and ice covered nature were plentiful. The way up and down on the trail was often covered in ice since a small creek followed the trail, and on the way down I took a tumble on the ice and found myself sitting down on my bum involuntarily all of a sudden. On the picture below I was still smiling and happily unaware of how slippery the decent would be...

I found what might have been the heaviest/hardest Christmas tree ever! walking into some of those small spruce bushes felt like walking into a rock!

Stats:
State: Massachusetts
High point: Mount Greylock
Elevation: 3 491 ft (1 064 m)
Date: November 27, 2010
Total elevation to date: 64 244 ft (19 582 m)
Access: Trail, 6.5 miles, about 3h.
Difficulty rating (of 10):  4
Potential Difficulties: ICE! finding trail heads trial intersections.