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Yesterday, three years ago, Brian and I hiked up to the Belknap summit in a cloud bank with high winds and no views – even from the tower. Today was a better story, much better views and foliage was reasonable but not at peak yet. The view from an outlook that we completely missed 3…
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Rainy Day Fall Pictures at Lake Massebesic.
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Myself, Brian and my grandson Alden did this loop hike to several fantastic viewpoints of Lake Winnipesaukee and surrounding area. This trail is a loop and is part of the Kimball Wildlife Forest, we took the Lakeview trail up to the viewpoints of the lake (starts at the road side of the parking area) and…
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There are 2 Rattlesnake mountain peaks in NH one in Center Sandwich NH and this one in Rumney NH which sits at southern spur of the Carr mountain ridge. This hike was with Brian on Wednesday May 24th. Both of us were equipped with “LidCam” cap mounted video cameras and I had my Go-Pro4 with…
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Phyllis Massey Stafford Conservation Area – Kingston~Danville NH Town Forest Link to: Conservation easement information Link to: Conservation registry
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The Kuncanowet Town Forest is located in Dunbarton NH and is a designated Conservation Area that derives its name from the Kuncanowet Hills. Kuncanowet means, “Mountain place of the bear”, in Native American. The images in this post were taken with a Canon EOS-70D and a 10-18mm wide angle lens at 20 megapixels. the RAW…
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The images in this post were taken with a Canon EOS-70D and a 10-18mm wide angle lens at 20 megapixels. Although it was an overcast day this hike was relatively bug free. We had a bit of rain on the hike out from the upper falls but it was completely manageable and spotty with the…
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The Manchester Cedar Swamp is a 602-acre ecological preserve, owned by the NH Nature Conservancy in New Hampshire, it is located off of Hackett Hill road on Countryside Blvd., and is one of the state’s most significant ecological areas. The trail network passes through a wide variety of rare and unusual plant species, including an…
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The Frankenstein Cliff trail-head is located in Crawford Notch State Park and parking is right off the highway directly on 302. The typical hiking time for this loop is about 3 hours 30 min. but due to my arthritic condition it took about almost 6 hours, but the views made the trip well worth the…
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From the archives… In May of 2016 we hiked the up the incline trail then across the summit trail to the viewpoints and down the remainder of the summit trail back to the parking area and Uncanoonuc Lake. The incline trail seemed like a relentless steep climb on a gravel surface from when the rail…
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