My annual pilgrimage to the White Mountains

**David Thorpe** · 9th October 12, 11:09 PM

Nice shots, Ken. The beard looks good on you!

**unixken** · 10th October 12, 12:03 AM

Thank you, David. The view from Cathedral Ledge is facing east, with Maine just on the other side of the mountain ridge. The Ledge itself is a 500 foot vertical bluff, overlooking the Saco River Valley, at North Conway, NH. The beard is a winter thing... on in October, off in the spring. It's getting quite white these days.

**tulloch** · 10th October 12, 05:19 AM

White Mountains - our treasure in the Northeast. Beautiful place. Thanks.

**sailortats** · 10th October 12, 06:16 AM

That picture from the ledge has made me very homesick. I graduated from Kennett High in Conway and lived in Glen, a section of Bartlett just outside of North Conway. Dad had a TV Sales and Service store in No. Conway. I spent many a day on Cathedral and White Horse Ledges. Is the white horse still visible? There used to be excellent low bush blueberry picking at the foot of Cathedral Ledge before all of the vacation homes took over the area. We always considered the 12th of October as the height of the leaf peeking season. Sorry to hear that it is not so great this year.

Send more pics please

**Angstrom** · 10th October 12, 08:53 AM

Not the Whites, but still NH...

Mt. Kearsarge, looking northeast.

Mt. Kearsarge, looking northwest.

Squam Lake from West Rattlesnake.

Paddling on the Pemi.

I just started hiking in a kilt -- no photos of that yet.

**JSFMACLJR** · 10th October 12, 09:15 AM

How interesting, Ken! My younger son has just finished four days of hiking and camping in the Franconia Ridge area. He reports about 5 inches of snow one morning in the higher elevations, and very cold temps above the tree line.

Thanks for sharing.

**unixken** · 10th October 12, 10:40 AM

Originally Posted by JSFMACLJR

My younger son has just finished four days of hiking and camping in the Franconia Gap area. He reports about 5 inches of snow one morning in the higher elevations, and very cold temps above the tree line.

Yes, it's been single-digits at the summits of the Presidential Range. Cool (high 40's to low 50's), with drizzle and fog, in the valleys. Hoping the rain holds out around sunset (or at least doesn't get any worse), as I'd like to do some moose-spotting along Rt 302 this evening, before dinner. If the weather breaks at all tomorrow, I'll be hunting down the various pumpkin displays around town, visiting several of the area's covered bridges, and perhaps stopping by the Lower Falls of the Swift River, along the Kancamagus Highway. If it were gauranteed to be nice, I'd be thinking the Crawford Notch train out of North Conway, and the Mt. Washington Auto Road (I was so hoping for a kilted shot at the summit!)