Trip to New England
Jul. 28th, 2009 08:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
naomikritzerWe got back on Sunday from a trip to Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The main purpose of the trip was to visit Ed's father, but we also went up to New Hampshire on a hut hike. We went to the Lonesome Lake hut last summer, and the girls loved it and wanted to go back. The AMC huts are awesome; you hike in, they have cabins and beds with pillows and wool blankets so all you need to bring is a set of sheets, and they cook you dinner and breakfast. We spent three nights there (which is really weird; most people hike in one day and out the next) and used one of our full days to hike to the top of Cannon Mountain.
It's a rugged trail. There are long sections where the people creating the trail painted trail markers on rockfalls and called it good. The girls cheerfully scrambled over boulders without complaining. After making them carry backpacks up to the hut, we'd left them unburdened for the trip up the mountain. This was the right call with Kiera but we should've made Molly carry something -- as it was, she kept getting way ahead of the rest of us and having to wait for us to catch up.
We'd estimated it would take about 2.5 hours to get from hut to peak; it took 3.5. This was problematic, as it takes longer to go down a steep trail than up. Cannon Mountain has a ski resort with a tramway; we wound up riding the tramway down, walking two miles back to the base of the trail up to the hut, and then walking back up to the hut. We arrived just in time for dinner.
Over dinner, Molly commented that if she'd realized how much work it would be to get to the top of the mountain, she wouldn't have agreed to do it. Ed pointed at a high peak visible through the window and said, "How'd you like to go up that one next year?" Both girls shook their heads and said it looked WAY too high and hard to climb. Ed said, "That's Cannon Mountain. That's the mountain you guys climbed today."
It's a rugged trail. There are long sections where the people creating the trail painted trail markers on rockfalls and called it good. The girls cheerfully scrambled over boulders without complaining. After making them carry backpacks up to the hut, we'd left them unburdened for the trip up the mountain. This was the right call with Kiera but we should've made Molly carry something -- as it was, she kept getting way ahead of the rest of us and having to wait for us to catch up.
We'd estimated it would take about 2.5 hours to get from hut to peak; it took 3.5. This was problematic, as it takes longer to go down a steep trail than up. Cannon Mountain has a ski resort with a tramway; we wound up riding the tramway down, walking two miles back to the base of the trail up to the hut, and then walking back up to the hut. We arrived just in time for dinner.
Over dinner, Molly commented that if she'd realized how much work it would be to get to the top of the mountain, she wouldn't have agreed to do it. Ed pointed at a high peak visible through the window and said, "How'd you like to go up that one next year?" Both girls shook their heads and said it looked WAY too high and hard to climb. Ed said, "That's Cannon Mountain. That's the mountain you guys climbed today."
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Date: 2009-07-29 03:02 am (UTC)I have bookmarked the hut. Sounds like something we'd love to do on our next trip out east. Thanks!