Woods Wind Wander

Not the summit, but still a spectacular view! In somewhat typical fashion for our family (beginning our time in New Hampshire with a bang (read: high mileage)), this trip started out with us attempting back to back 4,000 footers.  Why?  I'm not totally sure.  Perhaps we were feeling energetic having recently arrived, or more likely, the questionable weather forecast forced us to tackle some of our biggest hikes right away, before the impending rain.  Now, I know what you are thinking.  Yes, some hikes are completely doable in rain.  Soft trail, even trails that have tree roots are manageable, but steep and rocky terrain becomes dangerous in wet weather.  As do trails that feature cliffs or are otherwise described as "ledge-y."  I'd imagine that is what actually motivated us to check another of the 48 4,000 footers off of our list so soon: to take the weather out of the equation.   We settled on the East Peak of Mt. Osceola....

Wow, it's been since January since I've had the opportunity (and the emotional energy, to be honest) to update the ol' blog.  We have gone on some mini-adventures the first half of this year: a spring trip to Chincoteague, VA; Deep Creek and Cambridge, MD; and small visits to West Virginia and Pennsylvania.  I hope to write mini-posts on those excursions at some point, but I am happy to report that we are currently back in New Hampshire!  Yaaaaay!  I'm just a little excited to be here 😉 We got up at 3:30am back at home, left at around 4:15 to make the trek north.   Someone actually slept Honestly, we had a great trip up.  Traffic on the George Washington Bridge in New York City was fine and we didn't experience any major slow downs, so we arrived here in New Hampshire at about 3pm.  Being true to ourselves (and in desperate need of movement after being in a cramped car all day) we decided to go for a small hike.   Last f...