Monday and
Tuesday were pretty crappy days as far as the bikers here in the campground
were concerned. Weather was in the low
50’s and either very overcast or raining.
Top that with no TV reception because of all the mountains and trees
surrounding us and everyone pretty much had cabin fever by this morning. The weather report was for nice sunny weather
so bikes were headed out of here early this morning – including us. Here we are at Pemigewasset Overlook in the
White Mountains National Forest. The ride
today was wonderful so brace yourself for lots of pictures – I even managed to
get some good ones going down the road.
Yesterday
there was a period in the afternoon when the sun tried to come out. We took advantage of that brief window and
took a walk along the trail to Baker River that runs along the campground.
This bridge
over the river pretty much heads nowhere, it looks like it used to be a
railroad bridge but the railroad is long gone.
Baker River
looks to be a little low but we see a lot of people in and out of the
campground with kayaks and canoes so it must be deep enough in most places.
By the time
we were heading back to the campground the clouds were setting in again giving
the windmills up on the mountain an eerie look.
There are
lots of ski resorts in this area of New Hampshire, I think something I read
said there were 131 of them. When we
reached this one we knew we had missed our turn for the Kancamangus
Highway.
Greg asked if I wanted to stop
at one of the restaurants back in Lincoln, where we were supposed to turn, and
eat lunch. Sounded good, I envisioned
one of the rather quaint ones with some local flair.
Nope, he was
looking for a McDonalds. All I can say
is I might have been preaching the “no high fructose corn syrup and less red
meat” routine a little too strong lately J
Like I said
before, the day and the ride were beautiful.
These were all taken as we went down the road.
I think Greg enjoyed the challenges of this road – something different than the straight ones we have been on lately. There were some long sweeping curves.
Some
S-curves.
Even a
hairpin curve.
And, steep
downgrades. I think we hit a bump as I
was trying to take the “9% downgrade” picture.
We pulled
into the White Mountain National Forest Pemigewasset Overlook to get some
better pictures. I told Greg when I look
at things like this I just want to say, “Lord, you did good”. What an awesome sight!
The White
Mountains are part of the Appalachian chain created when the African and North
American continental plates collided 400 million years ago.
Heat and
pressure from the colliding continents melted existing rocks to form New
Hampshire’s famous granite.
I think it is the Swift River that runs alongside the Kancamangus Highway. I noticed as we rode along the whole river is full of big boulders and the banks are lined with trees – a recipe for lots of log jams, but I didn’t see any. Someone must work really hard to keep this river beautiful.
People are allowed to swim in this area of the river, I had to work hard to keep them out of the pictures. I kept this guy in the picture so you could get an idea of how large these boulders are.
The water is
just perfectly clear.
This huge
boulder is up on the shore.
As we were
coming home I glanced up and saw what looked like a rainbow around the
sun. I didn’t want to stare into the lens
to get a picture of the sun so I just held the camera up and clicked – pretty
good result!!
We loaded the bike when we got home, we’ll be leaving here tomorrow morning heading to Maine.
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