Mount Crag
Apr. 30th, 2006 04:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
auntiemeeshToday was an outside day. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lyda_pearl and I primed the wraparound porch so that LP can paint it tomorrow. Then we took Shadow and went out for a woods walk, heading out to Shelbourne to hike up the Austin Brook Trail to Mount Crag.
The trail head starts at a turnstile.
Immediately after entering the trail, there is a waterfall off to one side.
After that the batteries on the camera started acting up so we let it rest while hiking up a fairly steep trail for about a mile and a half. It's been an unbelievably beautiful weekend with really strong sunshine. The trail ran through a woods full of Hemlock, beech and striped maple, as well as pines. The combination of strong sunshine and warming air made all the loose pine needles on the forest floor wonderfully fragrant.
We took our time getting to the top, stopping frequently to rest, identify trees and absorb the loveliness of the day. When we got to the top it was totally worth the climb.
The Androscoggin river runs through the valley below.
The peak to the right in this picture is Mt. Washington. You can almost see the observation point on top of the mountain.
The trail head is just to the left of the house in this picture.
The striped maples were in full bud.
We rested on the crag for a while, simply taking in the beauty and soaking up the sun before heading back down. As we neared the trail head, I turned around and took one last picture, of the observation point we'd reached. It's an almost invisible bit of rock on the hill between the two center pine trees.
lyda_pearl and I primed the wraparound porch so that LP can paint it tomorrow. Then we took Shadow and went out for a woods walk, heading out to Shelbourne to hike up the Austin Brook Trail to Mount Crag.The trail head starts at a turnstile.
Immediately after entering the trail, there is a waterfall off to one side.
After that the batteries on the camera started acting up so we let it rest while hiking up a fairly steep trail for about a mile and a half. It's been an unbelievably beautiful weekend with really strong sunshine. The trail ran through a woods full of Hemlock, beech and striped maple, as well as pines. The combination of strong sunshine and warming air made all the loose pine needles on the forest floor wonderfully fragrant.
We took our time getting to the top, stopping frequently to rest, identify trees and absorb the loveliness of the day. When we got to the top it was totally worth the climb.
The Androscoggin river runs through the valley below.
The peak to the right in this picture is Mt. Washington. You can almost see the observation point on top of the mountain.
The trail head is just to the left of the house in this picture.
The striped maples were in full bud.
We rested on the crag for a while, simply taking in the beauty and soaking up the sun before heading back down. As we neared the trail head, I turned around and took one last picture, of the observation point we'd reached. It's an almost invisible bit of rock on the hill between the two center pine trees.
