(Remember to click on pics to enlarge, also tip laptop screen to enhance color)You want adventure? I'll give you adventure...follow me into the Pemigewasset Wilderness. Saturday I hiked my first 14.7 mile hike, to the clouds that engulfed Bondcliff and back down to camp on the Pemigewasset river. Nearly 20 miles of hiking this weekend. PHEW!
I'll start by showing you a quick video from the summit (see video below) We were in a fast moving cloud bank with bone chilling winds. We did not actually make it to the cliff summit. The first set of ledges near the top did us in...or was it the wind...or the cold??? The clouds opened up for a couple of quick photos then back down STEEP ledges to the trail, back down to the river, steep trail too. Dad counted at least 208 stone stairs. Those are all hops to me. Exhausting for all of us. We met tons of new hiking friends and a really cool hiking dog named Morgan, who we hope was able to summit the next day?????
We barely made it back down to water for dinner by sunset. We ended up being so tired we never needed the water after all, cozy, finally, in our tent, Mom and Dad fed me but never did cook dinner. Trail sacrifice. We did all enjoy a huge hot breakfast on a cold fall morning Sunday.
We took our time coming out the last 4 or 5 miles on the railroad grade trail back to the van, taking lots of fall foliage pictures. Our trip home via the Kancamancus highway was full of fall color....and traffic... but we don't blame any of them for being in the mountains for,this, one of the most spectacular foliages ever. Probably our last tent camping trip of 2009, so glad it was so extraordinary!
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