Zealand Trailhead
Zealand Trail
Zealand River
Zealand Trail Boardwalk
Zealand Meadows
Zealand Medows
Cole chomping on a pea pod looking for the magic beans
Cole, rocking out
Cole posing
A rare facial expression from Cole!
Cole leading the way up the Whitewall Slide
Looking down to Whitewall Brook rock pond
Heading up the Slide
Zeacliff
Whitewall Slide
Alton and Cole up the jumbled boulders
Looking off towards the backside of the Bonds
An alpine meadow on the north shoulder of Mount Bond
Whitewall Slide
Whitewall Cliffs
Topping out of the Slide
Looking down the slide
Whitewall Slide
Alton and Cole scrambling up the cliffs
Alton bringing Cole up to safety
Whitewall Mountain
Looking off to Carrigain Notch
Carrigain Notch
Whitewall Mountain ledges
Looking off towards the Hancocks
Shoal Pond with Mount Nancy and Beemis
Pemigewasset Wilderness
Shoal Pond
Carrigain Notch, Mount Lowell (L), Vose Spur (R), and Mount Tremont faded in the background
Hanging out on Whitewall Mountain
The Conifers of Whitewall Mountain
Alton leading the bushwhack
Looking back up the thick and steep woods
Bushwhacking
Alton and Cole heading off of Whitewall Mountain
Our route: Up the steep slide, down a steep overgrown drainage.
Cole taking in the views along the Ethan Pond Trail
Zealand Notch
Ethan Pond Trail
Thoreau Falls Trail Junction
Thoreau Falls
Thoreau Falls
Thoreau Falls
Rock slab of the Thoreau Falls
Glacial pothole
Glacial Potholes
Hiking, anyone?
Running the Thoreau Falls Trail
Cole cooling the paws off!
Fern blanketed Thoreau Falls Trail
Deep in the Pemi Wilderness!
The soft footed Thoreau Falls Trail
North Fork
Snack time!
Cole waiting for mom to arrive
Hurricane Irene Washout
Old railroad grade on the Thoreau Falls Trail
Back to running!
Thoreau Falls Trail
Camp 22 clearing
Thoreau Falls Bridge
Alton crossing the bridge with Mount Bond behind her
= no fattties!
It's not the camera angle, it's the bridge, it's crooked!
Thoreau Falls Bridge
Thoreau Falls Bridge marker
Thoreau Falls Bridge
Old cement bridge foundation
Railroad pipes
Old railroad grade on the Wilderness Trail
Cole finds a stick!
Cole running along the Wilderness Trail
Site of the old East Branch suspension bridge :(
Cables from the suspension bridge
Hurricane Irene washout
Wilderness Trail
Tippy toeing across a brook
Cole cooling the paws off, again!
The east branch in-ground swimming hole!
East Branch in-ground swimming hole
East Branch
A huge rock sitting in the East Branch
East Branch embankment washout
Pemigewasset Wilderness Boundary
Franconia Falls Tentsite Caretaker headquarters
East Branch
I think it may be Whaleback Mountain
Looking off towards Potash and Whaleback Mountain, I think.
East Side Trail
Cole strolling down the East Side
East Side washout
Hurricane Irene damage
East Side washout
Drainage pipe moved hundred feet down the brook by the storm
East Branch
Lincoln Woods Trail Closure
Lincoln Woods
I've been curious about this one for a long time and have it on a long term to-do list but this is the first timer I've seen it this well documented photographically. Looks awesome up there! Going to have to move it higher on the list!
ReplyDeleteHey Rickey, glad you like the pics. Definitely a great little hike up the slide and the views are very unique from up there. Whatever you do, don't follow our tracks back down, either head north a little and drop down to near the junctions of Shoal and Thoreau Falls Trail, or head to the A-Z trail through the glades!
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