Mt. Washington H.P.

The final hiking day of our 4 summit New England trip.  Note: we are still stiff from Marcy, and can barely extricate ourselves from the car to go into a restaraunt for a meal!  We decide to drive up part way, and find a nice little 4 mile hike from a side parking area. 

This required a half mile descent, in loose rock, but turned out to be very much worthwhile. 

Dave leading the descent. There was about half a mile of these large

loose rocks.  Tough work for sore legs!

Someone had placed these nice rock cairns every 100 feet or so.

Note the clouds blowing up and over the ridgeline.

You can see the trail cutting across the center of the meadow.

It was like a scene out of a Lord of the Rings movie! I expected a

Hobbit to jump out at any moment.

This was about 1.5 miles of easy walking! A very nice part of

Mt. Washington, most of which is rocky, steep and harsh.

This stream appears to just drop off to infinity.

The shot above and the next few are different views of Tuckerman

Ravine. Reminds me of photos from Ireland.

Another Tuckerman view.

Here's a nice shot right down the ravine.  This is one of the more popular

summit trails.  Will have to come back and do this one again.

We encountered a group of hikers coming up here.

We played "leapfrog" with them up the final haul, which is a

steep, rocky scramble.  Quite a workout! Dave had cut up through an

even more difficult route, just before this one, that I missed.

This is Kim, a motorcycling\adventuring pal, also from Houston.

She was up visiting friends in Vermont, and joined us for some hiking.

And finally, another peak bagged.  We just walked down the road

to the rental car, after a break and a snack in the gift store.

Glad we didn't just drive up!