For real this time! Yesterday we got a shuttle out of Gorham from the hotel owner, got back on the trail, and took on the Wildcats. The Wildcat Mountain range is a series of five mountains that involve quite a … Continue reading
After two days of wonderful rest at my folks house, my mom was kind enough to take us back up Mount Washington and leave us at the summit. We greatly appreciated not having to do that climb again with well loaded packs! It was breezy at the summit, but so completely different from the hurricane force winds we dealt with when we were last there, that things felt incredibly calm.
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we got a late start on the Presidential Range leading up to Mount Washington, the second highest peak on the trail, and our last mountain over 6,000 feet. Considering our late start, and tired legs we decided to take it easy and try to work for stay at Lake of the Clouds Hut about a mile and a half before the Mount Washington summit. Continue reading
Got on the trail by about 6:30 this morning, and stopped by a wonderful spring about a mile into our adventure. Nothing quite like a whole bunch of clear, cold, thirst quenching water to start the day off right! We hopped over boulders for five or six more miles, and arrived at Galehead Hut about 10:30am. Continue reading
Franconia Ridge is incredible!
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Over Mt Moosilauke and officially into the White Mountains! It was our first mountain over 4500 feet since Virginia, and we could tell. The descent from Mt. Moosilauke was the hardest thing I have done yet at the end of a long day, but the views from the top were wonderful! Continue reading
It was four months ago today that we started in Springer Mountain in Georgia, when I hardly dared to believe that someday we would be standing in New Hampshire. It has been a long and arduous path so far, and we still have a long way to go. After leaving Hanover yesterday we have definitely noticed the mountains getting taller, and we are headed for New Hampshire’s famous White Mountains in the next couple of days. Continue reading