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A virtual parade of people and dogs, and a glorious day.
Lots of families and new hikers!
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Or alternatively titled 'Jefferson Tart Grapes ' ;)
Been planning to go up Caps Ridge again for a long time, and when it looked like the weather and my personal schedule might work out, I requested a vacay day.
Managed to get out the door at the excruciatingly early time of 5.45. Ugh. Made good time , was tempted by the nearly empty parking lot for Falling Waters, but stuck to plan.
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A lollipop up the Ammonoosuc Ravine Trail (ART), around Monroe, back over Monroe and down the ART.
Plan was to go up Friday night, camp, and hit the trail early.
Nothing quite like tooling up the road in the dark, no other cars , just you and the dark and the tunes ... in the Zone. Mmmmm ...
And then realizing you're moving way too fast and if you hit a moose you will both explode like the Big Bang and there wont be anything but a few strands of hair and an expanding cloud of radiator fluid :O !
Fortunately neither moose nor Smokies appeared before I got back in proper form. And then it was a nice moonlit ride along the Kanc, with ... wait ... what the heck is that ? Odd ... somebody hitchhiking? A statue? Ah! A moose! Stop. Moose looks at me; I look at moose. Moose clearly the more alert of the two of us, wanders off ... I start up again and land in camp just around midnight...
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Piper is a sweet little mountain, I really like it a lot. Been there several times, and had a couple things in mind to do.
One was the Valley View trail, basically a loop off the main trail over Piper. The other was Swett Mountain. Or so I thought ....
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Warning! This trail is considerably more difficult and potentially dangerous than most trails in the Belknaps.
This is an advanced trail. Avoid it if you are not comfortable with heights, or conditions are wet ( or snowy or icy!) . I would recommend NOT using this trail for descent. The Red Trail from Anna is not far away and is considerably easier in my opinion. The footing is generally good (with the exception of the rockfall part of the trail), but there are several spots where a little lapse could result in a very bad - even fatal - fall. This is not a trail for sneakers!
Much to my amazement, I was actually on the road by 6.30 this morning, headed for the Precipice Path.
This was a trip up the Western leg of the Precipice Path 'horsehoe', over to Anna and down the Red Trail.
Despite it being the tail end of Bike Week, traffic was not too bad. Until just before reaching trail head, where I encountered a tow truck and police officer and a slight mystery. Seems someone left a perfectly good motorcycle in the middle of the road. Careless and carefree, that's the bikin' life I guess ..
Anyway after a few minutes ( and after the officer checked me out ... probably wanted to be sure I wasnt coming back for my bike or a buddy or ... I dunno .. something ) I was able to go on to the trailhead.