Mount Lafayette, Lincoln, Little Haystack

Date of hike: 9/30/06
Old Bridal Path: 2.9 miles
Greenleaf Trail: 1.1 miles
Franconia Ridge Trail: 1.7 miles
Falling Waters Trail: 3.0 miles
Total Miles: 8.7 (3,900 elevation gain)

Trip Report:
- Hiked with my college buddy Brandon Blindt and his friend Dan B.
- Clear day, no wind, temps 45-65 degrees
- Frost on rocks past Greenleaf Hut to summit, rime ice on trail signs and on the a few rocks before the sun melted it away
- Glider plane kept flying above ridge and into the valley
- Foliage was about a week from peaking

Pictures:


Eagle Lake and Mount Lafayette


Greenleaf Hut and Mount Lafayette


View into the Pemi Wilderness.  Garfield at the far left, with Galehead and the Twins in the middle, and Guyot on the right


Blindt and myself on Mount Lafayette


Looking down at the end of Franconia Notch to the lower ski slopes of Cannon Mountain


Glider plane making a pass over Agony Ridge


Mount Lincoln as seen from Little Haystack


Classic Franconia Ridge Shot

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