52 With A View: Mount Kearsarge North

Thursday, October 31, 2024 - This is a zoomed-in map of the New Hampshire "52 With A View" - I have 19 to go (yellow). I'll do Mount Kearsarge North today:

After THE hike-in-the-woods-in-the-snow from 2 weeks ago (by taking a trail on the North Side of a mountain), I'm only doing trails-from-the-SOUTH for the rest of this year:

After my Breakfast-in-Boston, I headed NORTH, and was parked by 11:40

Fast hike through the woods:

Then it got subtly steeper as I made my way up to some ledges:

And that is when I lost the trail. When I reached the top of the ledges, there was no path-into-the-woods, so I went back down the ledges until I saw a cairn, and followed it off to the left:

You can see how I went astray:

Pretty cool trail going around the backside of The Mountain (maybe a bit gnarly):

I reached The Summit (and its Fire Tower) at 1:45

There was a USGS Marker, and some pretty cool views from the top of The Fire Tower:

Very Nice Trail on the way back down:

Another Great Hike - 6.07 miles in 3 hours 27 minutes:

I headed home, south on Route 16 - since I had time, I was able to stop 1-and-1/2 hours from home to take some pretty pictures:

What a LOVELY Day! Thank You God for this wonderful "52 With A View" day!

For my listening pleasure today - music from my silver nano (only works when plugged into power):

Thompson Square - Just Feels Good, 2013 2nd album, last heard 10/11/2016 - I like their country-love-songs:

The Lumineers - The Lumineers, 2012 debut album, last heard 2/22/2017 - a very good "roots" album:

Counting Crows - 2016/08/03 Bangor, ME, last heard 11/12/2016 - GREAT CONCERT (yes, I was there!):

After the hike:

Bill Evans - Alone, 1970 album, last heard 8/04/2016 - very nice piano music, driving through New Hampshire:

Bastille - Bad Blood, 2013 debut album, last heard 2/27/2017 - time for some loud music:

Dave Matthews Band - Away From The World, 2012 8th studio album, last heard 2/27/2017 - ok, but delete - I have enough DMB:

David Baerwald - Bedtime Stories, 1990 debut solo album, last heard 2/27/2017 - He is the "better half" of David + David (excellent album "Boomtown"):

Shameless Plug: if you enjoy this blog, you may like my other one about visiting Art Museums and National Parks (and hiking in the Rockies)
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52 With A View: Mount Paugus - South Peak

Thursday, October 24, 2024 - This is a zoomed-in map of the New Hampshire "52 With A View" - I have 20 to go (yellow). I'll do Mount Paugus - South Peak today:

After last week's BURN (by taking a trail on the North Side of a mountain), I'm only doing trails-from-the-SOUTH for the rest of this year:

It was a really nice day as I drove into my Breakfast-in-Boston:

In New Hampshire, wonderful scenes once I got off the highway:

the chapel is Wonalacet Union Chapel, and is in my hiking map at the end of this blog.

I started just before noon:

10 minutes later I'm on Kelley Trail:

To quote The Guidebook: Kelley Trail goes up alongside Cold Brook to enter secluded, beautiful box canyon through which the brook flows. This is perhaps one of the most beautiful sections of trail in the White Mountains. The trail ascends through the narrow canyon, crossing the brook a few times. In its upper section the trail passes small gorges formed during the last ice age when the canyon was the outlet of a glacial lake, then reaches the bowl-shaped amphitheatre known as "Pleistocene Plunge Pool" at 1.9 mi. The trail makes a steep climb out of the canyon along the left side, then ascends a rough and rocky section as it squeezes through a cut at the top. Above here, grades ease and the trail ascends gradually to Paugus Pass ...":

Up at Paugus Pass you take a right onto Lawrence Trail:

I'm "mountain climbing", which means I HAVE TO GO UP sometime:

2 hours 20 minutes into the hike (just over 4 miles) I reach Mount Paugus - South Peak:

The views are less-than-spectacular (needs a little weed-wacker?):

Having said that, I really like the pictures I took on my way back down (are there giant beavers around here?):

Back in the Parking Lot at 4 PM:

A Great Hike - 8.20 miles in 4 hours 6 minutes:

What a LOVELY Day! Thank You God for this wonderful "52 With A View" day!

For my listening pleasure today:

various - Playboy: Jazz After Dark (2 cds), 2003 double-album, last heard 4/30/2016 - A LOT of Very Slow Jazz. Don't Delete, but no need to listen to for another 8 years:

Yes - The Yes Album, 1971 album, last heard 11/20/2016 - a great album:

After the hike:

various - WZLX - From The Vaults, 2000 album, last heard 9/23/2016 - Henley, allmans, Petty, Frampton, Boston - quite a collection:

Matchbox Twenty - Yourself Or Someone Like You, 1996 debut album, last heard 9/28/2016 - a lot of very good songs:

Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds Of Silence, 1966 2nd album, last heard 10/02/2016:

The single "The Sound of Silence" was #1 Jan 1 + 22, 1966
The album was released Jan 1966; Parsley, Sage ... released Oct 1966; Bookends released April 1968, and that was the order I recorded them on my reel-to-reel tape deck at St. Paul's School in the Fall of 1968.
The album ends with "I am a Rock"; bonus tracks include "Blues Run the Game" which I heard Counting Crows do last year in Boise, Idaho.
I wanted to listen to all versions of the song, and scrolled past 3 versions of "Be True" by Springsteen and thought "I WANT TO HERE THOSE"
They were GREAT
So I listened to the 6 versions of "Land of Hope and Dreams" - THEY WERE GREAT
So I listened to 2 versions of "Dream Baby Dream" - they were GREAT
and then I was HOME!

Shameless Plug: if you enjoy this blog, you may like my other one about visiting Art Museums and National Parks (and hiking in the Rockies)
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