Hike to Lake Solitude (back side of Sunapee)

Friday, Oct. 27, 2017 - I wanted to revisit "the hike that started it all" (My 1st 4,000 footer - Mount Tecumseh - was on Sunday June 22, 2014). My "first hike" was up the backside of Mount Sunapee in New Hampshire 3 weeks earlier, on June 7, 2014 - there were blue blazes on the trees, and Lake Solitude was BEAUTIFUL:


as was the view from Mount Sunapee:


But this is not a blog about 3 years ago - it is a blog about TODAY!:

We started hiking about 11:15:

Andrew Brook was ROARING:

and Wendy did a GREAT JOB hiking up through the fall woods:

although it did get a little tricky crossing the Brook (many times!):


The "old-birch-tree-growing-over-the-moss-covered-boulder" was a nice touch:


The hike was "supposed to be" 2 miles up, and 2 miles back. After 2.65 miles (and over 2 hours) hiking up trails-that-were-streams-with-boulders, Wendy had had enough and stoped for lunch. I continued on a bit farther, and Lake Solitude was once again very beautiful:





We headed back down, and it was much faster going-down - we wound up doing 5.37 miles total in 4 hours 3 minutes:


It was a beautiful day for a Fall drive in New England, and we got home in time for dinner-before-church. Thank you God for these wonderful adventures!

Today, it was musc from my purple nano:

Dave Matthews Band - Live At Red Rocks 8.15.95 1997 live album (2 cds)


Jackson Browne - Lawyers In Love, 1983


Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy, 1973