Hiking in the White Mountains: Dog Days of Summer: North and South Hancock

Date of Hike: 7/3/13

Hancock Notch Trail: 1.8 miles	Cedar Brook Trail: 0.7 miles	Hancock Loop Trail: 4.8 miles
Cedar Brook Trail: 0.7 miles	-	Hancock Notch Trail: 1.8 miles
Total Miles: 9.8	-	2,650 elevation gain

Trip Report
- A quick afternoon hike in the steam bath that has overtaken the northeast was in order. I figured, hey why not head to the Hancock's and head up the Arrow Slide! But the weather was sub par for slide climbing so I stuck to the trails.
- I didn't see many people out and about so I basically just put my head down and hiked fast while taking my usual hundred or so pictures, which as you see get dwindled down to about thirty or so. The key to being a good no-skills photographer is if you take ten pictures, three come out nice!
- The water crossings were running high so I rock hopped the submerged rocks getting my shoes wet. It was about ninety degrees out so it felt refreshing, plus the Cedar Brook Trail is a complete eroded and muddy mess, there's no straying dry on that trail anymore. Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Sandy Pants made sure of that!
- This just in, the trails up to North and South Hancock from the split are still extremely steep!
- The Loop trail between the two pics was in decent shape. There are two awful mud bogs, one of which recently had lumber dumped on it so bog bridges could be built. It's a jumbled mess right now but will help the trail out a lot once in place.
- Enjoy the pics!