New Hampshire

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We drove from the Green Mountains of Vermont to the White Mountains of New Hampshire

The squirrel that shared our campsite.

Marsh on the hiking trail

This 3000 ton granite boulder (top) came crashing down the mountainside and cleared a path where it snapped trees like match sticks. Fortunately, it was stopped by the boulder on the bottom, which fell many years before. Otherwise, it would have crashed through the trail and eventually into the road that passes through Franconia Notch.

We hiked up to see the famous “Old Man of the Mountain,” which our guidebook said we should not miss.

The Old Man is the states official symbol and mascot, you can see him just about everywhere, except…

We hiked an hour or so to the scenic viewing area and admired the view, although we were not sure of the location of the Old Man. Being only 30 feet tall and on top of a small mountain, the guidebook stated that some visitors were underwhelmed by his stature. Perhaps this was why he was difficult to find?

Is he up there?

Or maybe up there?

Then we found the historical marker detailing the fall of the Old Man in 2003, the same year our guidebook was published.

Live Free or Die, the Man says. He stood for thousands and thousands of years, why do you think he fell in 2003?

Next, we went to The Basin, a 30 foot deep “pothole” formed by water churning rocks in a circular motion. Henry David Thoreau was here in 1839 and wrote that “this pothole is perhaps the most remarkable curiosity of its kind in New England.“

Heather on the rocks.

Dan in the rays of the sun.

On many slopes the roots of trees were exposed.

Waterfall

Heather contemplates the beauty of nature.

An old covered bridge.

Another scenic view.
On to Maine
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