Sunday, July 27, 2008

Flume Gorge at Franconia Notch

Sat 29th Sep 07

It's that time of the year again... nearing Autumn... foliage time again... remember about the same time last year... we went for foliage at Kangamangus Highway... This time we are here at the Flume Gorge...
It's a pretty nice place... great geographical lesson... how is a gorge form... plus everything tat goes with it... boulders... waterfalls... basins.... one of my fav because it's easy to walk... compared to some of the other mountains which we hiked tat nearly killed me.. haha...
Let's begin the hike with a pic with the Glacial Boulder...
Covered bridge over Pemigewasset River

Can't believe the Flume Boulder was suspended between these walls for centuries before being dislodged by a storm..

Looking down at The Pool and overlooking the greenery opposite...





Next we make our way down to The Basin aka "The Old Man's Foot Basin"... the shape of that rock formation really does look like a foot though...


Next we drove to Echo Lake Park... I think we've been to the opposite of this lake on another occasion...



Drove along Kangamangus and up the Mt Washington region... where we spotted the Mt Washington cog railway... initially we saw smoke at the top of the mountain.. and thought something was on fire... but then we realised it is actually the cog train... cool man!
Day out with nature... Love it!
-jiahua

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