Date of Hike: 10/13/17
Pemi Recreational Trail: 2.1 miles / Basin Bushwhack: 0.3 miles / Liberty Spring Trail: 0.2 miles / Flume Slide Trail: 3.3 miles / Franconia Ridge Trail: 1.5 miles / Liberty Spring Trail: 2.3 miles / Whitehouse Mill Logging Road Bushwhack: 1.8 miles / Falling Waters Trails: 2.5 miles / Franconia Ridge Trail: 1.7 miles / Greenleaf Trail: 1.1 miles / Old Bridle Path: 2.2 miles / Hut Croo Path: 0.3 miles / Lafayette Place: 0.2 miles
Total Miles: 19.5 (7,800 feet elevation gained) Garmin Forerunner 920XT & A.M.C White Mountain Guide Online
Trip Report
- Every fall I like to do the classic Franconia Ridge loop hike over Lafayette and Lincoln. This year I did that plus a little more. I decided to start at Lafayette Place and take the Pemi Recreational Trail and the Basin Bushwhack on my way to hiking up the Flume Slide Trail to Mount Flume. Then I headed across the Franconia Ridge Trail to Mount Liberty and down Liberty Spring Trail. At the junction of the Liberty Spring and Flume Slide trails I used the old Whitehouse Mill Logging Road to cut over to the Falling Waters Trail. From here, I did the classic loop up and over Lil' Haystack, Lincoln, and Lafayette, via Falling Waters Trail, Franconia Ridge Trail, Greenleaf Trail, Old Bridle Path, and the Hut Croo Path.
- Foliage below 2000 feet was still pretty great, maybe just past its peak as the trails where blanketed by a few inches of leaves in spots, but there were plenty of bright yellow colors all around through the hardwood sections of the woods.
- Views up above treeline were tremendous as usual, while the bushwhacks and Flume Slide Trail where a lot of fun plus I had the slide and bushwhack sections to myself. Everywhere else the trails were definitely busy, good news was that almost everyone I ran into was having fun and were pleasant.
- As always, it was another spectacular fall hike in Franconia Notch, can't wait to do it again next year! :)
Pemi Recreational Trail: 2.1 miles / Basin Bushwhack: 0.3 miles / Liberty Spring Trail: 0.2 miles / Flume Slide Trail: 3.3 miles / Franconia Ridge Trail: 1.5 miles / Liberty Spring Trail: 2.3 miles / Whitehouse Mill Logging Road Bushwhack: 1.8 miles / Falling Waters Trails: 2.5 miles / Franconia Ridge Trail: 1.7 miles / Greenleaf Trail: 1.1 miles / Old Bridle Path: 2.2 miles / Hut Croo Path: 0.3 miles / Lafayette Place: 0.2 miles
Total Miles: 19.5 (7,800 feet elevation gained) Garmin Forerunner 920XT & A.M.C White Mountain Guide Online
Trip Report
- Every fall I like to do the classic Franconia Ridge loop hike over Lafayette and Lincoln. This year I did that plus a little more. I decided to start at Lafayette Place and take the Pemi Recreational Trail and the Basin Bushwhack on my way to hiking up the Flume Slide Trail to Mount Flume. Then I headed across the Franconia Ridge Trail to Mount Liberty and down Liberty Spring Trail. At the junction of the Liberty Spring and Flume Slide trails I used the old Whitehouse Mill Logging Road to cut over to the Falling Waters Trail. From here, I did the classic loop up and over Lil' Haystack, Lincoln, and Lafayette, via Falling Waters Trail, Franconia Ridge Trail, Greenleaf Trail, Old Bridle Path, and the Hut Croo Path.
- Foliage below 2000 feet was still pretty great, maybe just past its peak as the trails where blanketed by a few inches of leaves in spots, but there were plenty of bright yellow colors all around through the hardwood sections of the woods.
- Views up above treeline were tremendous as usual, while the bushwhacks and Flume Slide Trail where a lot of fun plus I had the slide and bushwhack sections to myself. Everywhere else the trails were definitely busy, good news was that almost everyone I ran into was having fun and were pleasant.
- As always, it was another spectacular fall hike in Franconia Notch, can't wait to do it again next year! :)
Map of the route
Pemi Recreational Trail (AKA Pemi Bike Path)
Basin Bushwhack and the lower section of the Flume Slide Trail
Start of the Flume Slide
Lower slabs on Flume Slide
Obstructed view from the middle of Flume Slide
Middle section of the slide
Upper section of Flume Slide
Flume Gorge Valley
Mount Liberty, Little Haystack, Lincoln, and Lafayette as seen from Mount Flume
Looking down to North Woodstock and Mount Flume
Owl's Head
Kinsmans and Cannon (bottom), Pemi Wilderness (top)
Hellgate Ravine of the Bonds
Liberty Spring Trail
Start of the Whitehouse Mill logging road, trail heads left and downhill, logging bushwhack heads right and stays level (picture on left). Hiking along the old logging road (right)
Whitehouse Mill Logging bushwhack
Stairs Falls and Swiftwater Falls
Cloudland Falls
Mount Lincoln
Twin - Guyot - Bond range
Owl's Head and Lincoln Brook Valley
Cannon Mountain (bottom), Kinsmans (top)
Owl's Head
Liberty and Flume
Classic Franconia Ridge picture
Eagle Lake and Mount Lafayette
Greenleaf Hut, Shining Rock
Hut Croo Path
View from Lafayette Place
