Just for fun: White's Ledge, Mt. Stanton, Mt. Pickering, Mt. Langdon

I have been skiing at Attitash, on and off, for about 20 years now. I have always loved looking, from the summit, at the ridgeline across the valley - specifically the granite cliffs on the far-right. Here is a picture I took Monday Feb. 4, 2013, when I went skiing with Deede:


Going from right-to-left, you see the granite ledge (White's Ledge), Mt. Stanton, Mt. Pickering and Mt. Langdon.

Mt. Stanton is 1716 feet, Mt. Pickering is 1930 feet, and Mt. Langdon is 2390 feet - all not very high, but I started at 650 feet (and ended at 740 feet)



Using Map My Walk, I went up Mt Stanton Trail Trail (1.4 miles) to Mt Stanton (stopping at White's Ledge), then 0.7 miles to Mt Pickering, then 2.4 miles to Mt Langdon, then 0.8 miles to Mt Langdon Shelter, the 0.4 to the Mt Langdon Trail. From there it was 2.5 miles down to where Wendy was picking me up in Bartlett. With twists and turns and overlooks, I covered 9.5 miles in 4 hours. I covered about 4,690 feet in climbing elevation (2390 ups, and 2300 downs) - it was a good workout:


Wendy seeing me off at the trailhead


The view from White's Ledge, showing the valley and Attitash (Bear Peak in the distance)




My selfies on top of Mount Stanton

and Mount Pickering


another pretty view of Attitash


and a beautiful view out the north side of the ridge, looking north up the Rocky Branch/Jericho Road valley


my selfie on Mt Langdon


the Mt Langdon Shelter (the trail gets a little confusing around here)


the sun started coming out on my way back down


it was nice seeing the car when I hit the end at 1:27 (I had told Wendy 1:30, so my timing was PRETTY GOOD!!!)


Thank you God for a Great Day!

Tuesday, September 30, 2014
North Conway/Bartlett trailhead
9.5 miles -- hiking (4 hours)
3 hours -- to get home

We listened to the radio, Wendy read me sections of "The Boys In The Boat" (University of Washington rowing in the 1930's), and we listened to Ben Howard's "Every Kingdom".

My 20th (North Twin) and 21st (South Twin) 4,000 footers!

The end-of-July hike (Mount Willey, Mount Field, and Mount Tom) are grouped together in Crawford Notch State Park in the "middle group" (in the far-right green circle).
Previous hikes have been:
North Kinsman and South Kinsman are the far-far-left green circle
Cannon Mountain is the far-left green circle
just east of Cannon are Mount Lincoln and Mount Lafayette
south of them are Mount Flume and Mount Liberty (in the lower green circle)
Mount Hale is the middle-upper green circle
while today's hike (North Twin and South Twin) are in the red square:


Go up 93 from Boston, around on Route 3 for about 8 miles, then right (south) up Haystack Road for 2.5 miles


Using Map My Walk, I went up North Twin Trail (4.3 miles) to North Twin, then on North Twin Spur to get to the South Twin summit (1.3 miles), then backtracked to North Twin and down to the parking area (5.6 miles). With twists and turns and overlooks, I covered 11.8 miles in 5 hours 16 minutes. I covered about 6,740 feet in climbing elevation (2800 up, 230 down, 340 up, 340 down, 230 up, and then finally 2800 down):


North Twin Trail goes basically straight-and-flat up along Little River for 2 miles, and is GORGEOUS! It crosses Little River 3 times, and each time you have to play hopscotch - this is the view down from the trail:


This is the view upstream at my first river crossing


and the view upstream at my third river crossing

In the spring, this river must be insane - all those boulders are scoured CLEAN - also note the tree roots coming out of the bank!

After crossing the river for the last time, you go up a "regular hiking trail" - not too hard, but steeper-than-easy. After about another mile the trail gets steep

and stays that way all the way to the top

There is a nice outlook before the top, and then you are back in "high alpine forest" (very thick with moss) - a lot like a "ridge walk"


the view east - that peak in front of me might be Mount Hale


My selfie on North Twin


There is a cairn on the outlook just west of the North Twin summit


and the view west includes Galehead Mountain, with Mount Garfield in the far right and the Franconia Ridge in the distance (Lafayette, Lincoln, Liberty and Flume [right-to-left]). Owl's Head Mountain is the mountain beyond Galehead and in front of Flume


My picture on South Twin

taken by a friend hiking the AT (that's hiker-lingo for "Appalachian Trail"):


That is North Twin in the distance, which I have to get back to:


another beautiful view on my way back down


and an abundance of color on the trail near the end of the hike


and that's all for today! I can't wait to get Wendy up here to see Little River! Thank you God for a Great Day!

Thursday, September 25, 2014
153 miles -- Boston up 93 North to Rt. 3 to Haystack Rd to trailhead parking lot (2 1/2 hours)
11.8 miles -- hiking (5 hours 16 minutes)
3 hours -- to get home

Continuing to listen to all my songs, in alphabetical order. I listened to 87 songs, still in the E's
Quick note: "WM_" stands for Warren Miller ski movie soundtrack, which I built
Every Picture Tells A Story Rod Stewart Every Picture Tells A Story
Every Single Soul Michael Franti & Spearhead WM_ColdFusion
Every Single Soul - original Michael Franti & Spearhead Stay Human
Every Step Of The Way Santana Caravanserai
Every Summer Night Pat Metheny Group Letter From Home
Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall Coldplay Mylo Xyloto
Every Time She Whispers Michael Franks Barefoot On The Beach
Every Time We Say Goodbye Diana Krall Quiet Nights
Every Word Sade Lovers Rock
Every Word Tyken The Ultimate Ibiza Album [Disc 2]
Everybody (Original Mix) Martin Solveig Hed Kandi Classics [Disc 2]
Everybody Cryin' Mercy Mose Allison Allison Wonderland: Anthology [Disc 2]
Everybody Get Together The Dave Clark Five The Hits - DC5
Everybody Has The Blues James Taylor Live - James Taylor (2 cds)
Everybody Hurts R.E.M. Automatic For The People
Everybody Hurts R.E.M. Live (2 cds)
Everybody I Love You Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Déjà Vu
Everybody Is A Star Sly & The Family Stone Greatest Hits (Sly & The Family Stone)
Everybody Knows The Dave Clark Five The Hits - DC5
Everybody Knows The Dave Clark Five The Hits - DC5
Everybody Knows [Album Version] Don Henley The Very Best Of Don Henley
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young & Crazy Horse Live At The Fillmore East
Everybody Loves You Now Billy Joel Songs In The Attic
Everybody Needs Love Drive-By Truckers Go-Go Boots
Everybody Needs Somebody The Marshall Tucker Band Anthology: The First 30 Years
Everybody Ona Move Michael Franti & Spearhead Yell Fire!
Everybody Ona Move Michael Franti & Spearhead Yell Fire! Live
Everybody Wake Up (Our Finest Hour Arrives) Dave Matthews Band Stand Up - DMB
Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven Kenny Chesney Lucky Old Sun
Everybody Wants To Rule The World Tears For Fears Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82-92)
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Extended Version) Tears For Fears '80s Dance Gold (2 cds)
Everybody Warned Me Bill Morrissey Inside
Everybody's Cryin' Mercy (Live) Mose Allison The Mose Chronicles Vol. 1
Everybody's Doin' It Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen Too Much Fun
Everybody's Doing It Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen Live From The Capitol Centre 1975
Everybody's Everything Santana Santana III
Everybody's Gonna Be Happy The Kinks Greatest Hits!
Everybody's Got A Cousin In Maimi Jimmy Buffett Fruitcakes
Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey The Beatles The Beatles (White Album) [2 cds]
Everybody's Talkin' [Bonus Track] Crosby, Stills & Nash Crosby, Stills & Nash [with Bonus Tracks]
Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby [Mono] The Beatles Beatles '65
(Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With The Bag Kay Starr Ultra-Lounge: Christmas Cocktails, Part One
Everyday Dave Matthews America: A Tribute To Heroes
Everyday Dave Matthews Band Everyday
Everyday Dave Matthews Band Live At Folsom Field, Boulder, Colorado (2 cds)
Everyday Dave Matthews Band Weekend On The Rocks [Live] (2 cds)
Everyday Dave Matthews Band 7/8/2006: Fenway Park, Boston, MA (4 cds)
Everyday Ryan Hebel 51 Must Have Modern Worship Hits
Everyday > #36 Dave Matthews Band The Gorge (2 cds)
Everyday Combat Lostprophets WM_Playground
Everyday I Write The Book Elvis Costello The Best Of Elvis Costello And The Attractions
Everyday Is A Winding Road Sheryl Crow Pure 90's
Everyday People Sly & The Family Stone Greatest Hits (Sly & The Family Stone)
Everyone Van Morrison Moondance
Everyone Deserves Music Michael Franti & Spearhead Everyone Deserves Music
Everyone Deserves Music Michael Franti & Spearhead Yell Fire! Live
Everyone Else Is Evolving Chappaquiddick Skyline Chappaquiddick Skyline
Everyone's Gone To The Movies Steely Dan Katy Lied
Everything A Man Could Ever Need Glen Campbell All The Best
Everything About You Ugly Kid Joe Pure 90's
Everything Happens to Me Gene Harris Playboy: Jazz After Dark (2 cds)
Everything Happens To Me Keith Jarrett At The Blue Note II: Friday, June 3, 1994 (2nd Set) [Disc 2]
Everything Hurts Buckwheat Zydeco Summer Solstice 2
Everything I Shouldn't Be Thinking About Thompson Square Just Feels Good
Everything I Wanted The Bangles Greatest Hits (The Bangles)
Everything In Me Maeve Mothers Of Grace Club
Everything Is Different Now Don Henley The Very Best Of Don Henley
Everything Must Go Steely Dan Everything Must Go
Everything Old Is New Again Peter Allen The Very Best Of Peter Allen (TBDU)
Everything Put Together Falls Apart Paul Simon Paul Simon
Everything That Touches You Bonnie Raitt Streetlights
Everything To Me Rockapella Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?
Everything You Did Steely Dan Royal Scam
Everything's Coming Our Way Santana Santana III
Everything's Gonna Be Alright The Butterfield Blues Band Woodstock Two (2 cds)
Everything's Not Lost Coldplay Parachutes
Everything's Not Lost [Live] Coldplay Coldplay Live 2003
Everytime Donavon Frankenreiter Move By Yourself
Everytime We Say Goodbye John Coltrane My Favorite Things
Everywhere Trinity Pipes Finally
Everywhere I Go Jackson Browne I'm Alive
Evil The Steve Miller Band The Best Of 1968-1973
Evil Empire Joe Jackson Blaze Of Glory
The Evil Eye Joe Jackson Beat Crazy
Evil Ways Santana Santana
Evil Woman Spooky Tooth Spooky Two

My 18th (North Kinsman) and 19th (South Kinsman) 4,000 footers!

The end-of-July hike (Mount Willey, Mount Field, and Mount Tom) are grouped together in Crawford Notch State Park in the "middle group" (in the far-right green circle).
Previous hikes have been:
Cannon Mountain is the far-left green circle
just east of Cannon are Mount Lincoln and Mount Lafayette
south of them are Mount Flume and Mount Liberty (in the lower green circle)
Mount Hale is the middle-upper green circle
while today's hike (North Kinsman and South Kinsman) are in the red square:




Using Map My Walk, I went up Lonesome Lake Trail (1.4 miles), around the southeast side of Lonesome Lake (0.3 miles), then up Fishin' Jimmy Trail to Kinsman Junction (2.1 miles), then along the Kinsman Ridge Trail, stopping at the overlook on North Kinsman (0.6 miles), then over to South Kinsman summit (1.0 miles). I backtracked (1.5 miles) through North Knisman and took a right down the Kinsman Pond Trail (around beautiful Kinsman Pond!) (2.6 miles). When it intersected, I took a left up Cascade Brook Trail up to Lonesome Lake (0.9 miles), then returned down Lonesome Lake Trail to the parking area (1.5 miles). I covered 11.9 miles in 5 hours 15 minutes. I covered about 6,150 feet in climbing elevation (2420 up, 150 down, 250 up, 1920 down, 410 up, and then finally 1000 down):


Lonesome Lake Trail is a good trail, for hikers of just about all abilities:


Lonesome Lake is as beautiful as ever:


and it empties into the woods at the southern end


Fishin' Jimmy Trail gets a little crazy - that's the Trail going up on the left, and that's a mossy waterfall on the right


a nice view from a clearing


The Kinsman Ridge Trail


My selfie on North Kinsman


and the view across Franconia Notch at Mounts Lafayette, Lincoln, Liberty and Flume!!!


the view north towards Cannon Mountain


My selfie on South Kinsman (finally a cairn!!)


back down to Kinsman Pond Trail:


and Kinsman Pond (wow de wow de wow!!):


the trail literally goes down a brook:

another blog (SectionHiker) supports my impression of a wet tricky trail (but FUN)

the stream


and waterfall!!


the trail back up to Lonesome Lake (the top part of Cascade Brook Trail) is nice:


and that's all for today! WOW, what a HIKE - Thank you God for a GREAT DAY!

Tuesday, September 23, 2014
146 miles -- Depot Diner (where I had a great breakfast date with Wendy!) up 93 North to trailhead parking lot (3 hours)
11.9 miles -- hiking (5 hours 15 minutes)
3 hours -- to get home

Continuing to listen to all my songs, in alphabetical order. I listened to 72 songs, all in the E's
Quick note: "WM_" stands for Warren Miller ski movie soundtrack, which I built
The Epic Pat Metheny Group American Garage
Epilogue Bill Evans Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Epilogue Grateful Dead Europe '72 (Live) (2 cds)
Epilogue (Nothing 'Bout Me) Sting Ten Summoner's Tales
Episode D'Azur Pat Metheny Group We Live Here
Epistle To Dippy Donovan Donovan's Greatest Hits
Epitaph (2009 New Stereo Album Mix) King Crimson In The Court Of The Crimson King
Eple Röyksopp Ultra Chilled 01.1
Equatorial Lô Borges Beleza Tropical: Brazil Classics 1
Equitoreal Dubtribe Sound System Hed Kandi - Base Ibiza
Eric's Theme Vangelis Chariots Of Fire
Erie Canal Bruce Springsteen We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
Eruption Van Halen Van Halen
Esawayo Samite Stars To Share
Eskimo Damien Rice O
Eskimo - ski Damien Rice WM_HigherGround
Eskimo Blue Day Jefferson Airplane Volunteers
Eskimo Blue Day Jefferson Airplane Woodstock Two (2 cds)
Eskimo Blue Day Jefferson Airplane 2400 Fulton Street [Disc 2]
Especially For You Kylie Minogue Ultimate Kylie
Espimel's Journey Roger Espinoza Café Fuego
Esta Noche Federico Aubele Gran Hotel Buenos Aires
Estate (Summer) Eliane Elias Bossa Nova Stories
Este Seu Olhar Diana Krall Quiet Nights
Estupenda Graca Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
Et Si C'etait La Fin (As If It Were The End) Pat Metheny Secret Story (2 cds)
Eternal Caravan Of Reincarnation Santana Caravanserai
Eternal Flame The Bangles Greatest Hits (The Bangles)
Eu E O Meu Amor / Lamento No Morro Quarteto Jobim-Morlenbaum Samba Bossa Nova
Eugene's Ragtop W.G. "Snuffy" Walden Music by W.G. Snuffy Walden
Eulogy Frank Turner England Keep My Bones
Euphoria Delerium Pure Moods: Celestial Celebration
Euphoria (Firefly) Delerium Karma
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye Bobby Short Late Night At The Cafe Carlyle
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye Carmen McRae The Very Best of Cole Porter
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye Sarah Vaughan Cocktails With Cole Porter
Eva Ozomatli Live At The Fillmore
Eva Ozomatli Ozomatli
Evacuate The Dancefloor (Radio Edit) Cascada Now That's What I Call Club Hits 2
Evacuation Of The West Bruce Springsteen Before The Fame (2 cds)
Evangeline Little Big Town A Place To Land
Eve, The Apple Of My Eye Bell X1 Music From The OC: Mix 4
Even Better Than The Real Thing The Persuasions The Persuasions Sing U2
Even Flow Pearl Jam Ten
Even Flow Pearl Jam WM_HigherGround
Even The Losers Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Damn The Torpedoes
Even The Losers Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Greatest Hits (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)
Even The Trees Are Dancing The Waterboys This Is The Sea [Disc 2]
Evening Michael Jones 20 Years of Narada Piano [Disc 2]
Evening Meditation Van Morrison Best Of Van Morrison Volume Two
Evensong Dan Gibson/Michael Maxwell Emerald Forest ～ A Celtic Sanctuary
Eventide Spirit Time Circle (1968-1972)
Ever After 松居慶子 20 Years of Narada Piano [Disc 2]
Ever Since I Stole The Blues Mose Allison Allison Wonderland: Anthology [Disc 2]
Ever Since The World Ended Mose Allison Allison Wonderland: Anthology [Disc 2]
Ever Since The World Ended (Live) Mose Allison The Mose Chronicles Vol. 1
Everbody's Just Like Me Livingston Taylor Last Alaska Moon
The Everlasting First Love All Day Thumbsucker Revisited: Blue Thumb Records (2 cds)
Everlasting Love Courtney Reid Love Struck
Everlasting Love Gloria Estefan The Very Best Of Gloria Estefan
Everlasting Love Jamie Cullum Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason
Everlasting Love U2 B-Sides 1980-1990
Everlasting Love (Video Version) Gloria Estefan Greatest Hits Vol. II
Everlong Foo Fighters WM_ColdFusion
Everloving Moby Play
Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You Bee Gees Best Of The Bee Gees
Every Day James Taylor Greatest Hits Volume 2
Every Day (I Thank You) Pat Metheny 80/81 (2 cds)
Every Hungry Woman The Allman Brothers Band The Allman Brothers Band
Every Little Kiss Bruce Hornsby & The Range The Way It Is
Every Little Thing The Beatles Beatles VI [Capitol Album]
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic The Police Ghost In The Machine