Last week Joan and I made a trip to the Second College Grant in New Hampshire’s North Country (aka the Great North Woods). This is the region north of the White Mountains… i.e. “way up there”. We rented a nice rustic cabin in ‘the grant’ and spent several days roaming both by car and on foot.
The foliage was about peak, maybe a bit past as there were already lots of maple leaves on the ground. The weather was just OK. Most days were mostly cloudy but we had rain only one day.
After our rental was up, we stayed an additional night in a motel in order to get in a hike to the Fourth Connecticut Lake and to see a performance by Rebecca Rule and Fred Marple, two Yankee humorists.
The Fourth Connecticut Lake is the headwaters of the Connecticut River and is located on the border with Quebec. To get there you drive to the border crossing in Pittsburg and park the car. From there the trail climbs steeply up the international border for roughly half a mile (the trail crisscrosses the boundary) before turning south for about a quarter mile to the lake.
Joan and I do this hike roughly every ten years. Given that we are ‘pushing seventy’, this may have been our swansong!
Is it ‘legal’ to make black and white photos during foliage season?
And lastly, two panoramas…
The Fourth Connecticut Lake panorama (four frames) was made looking south from near where the trail arrives at the lake.
The Hall Stream panorama is a single frame.. Hall Stream is the border beween NH (the part of NH north of Vermont) and Quebec. The line of still green trees at the far edge of the hay field runs along the stream. The hillside with the fall foliage is in Quebec.
