In mid-September, with the promise of fall in the air, Tony was dying to see some foliage. Being a native Vermonter, I think it just seemed wrong to wait for our "flat-lander" foliage - he needed to view the fall colors from the mountains. Seeing that it was still early in the season, we would need to go pretty far north - Massachusetts wasn't gonna cut it. So we set our sights on New Hampshire. And while getting up at the crack of dawn was not the high point of the day, the hike was well worth it. It was about 4.5 miles roundtrip and had a nice moderate terrain. It spanned two peaks, Mt. Percival and Mt. Morgan in a loop and had incredible views of the lakes in the distance. And even though the trees weren't quite turned - we still had a wonderful time getting out into the beautiful New England mountains.
Still pretty sleepy (me), we are at the trail head at 9:30am
(it's a 3 hour drive, you do the math!)
Our first look-out as we ascend Mt Percival. There's some orange!
Taking a water break on the trail.
Hiking up on the boulders trying to find the cave we needed to go through...
where is it??
A-ha! There's the yellow trail marker... how did we miss that??!!
In I come.. had to pass our backpacks through first... it was a tight squeeze!
Me and T on the summit of Mt. Percival.
The view from Mt. Percival.
On the way home we stopped in southern New Hampshire
for some quick apple picking. Yum!
