So finally, I am getting a chance to finish this post...on Saturday morning when we woke up it looked like it was going to be a decent day, so we decided we should use the opportunity to go to the top of Mt Washington. Two years ago when we had visited the area we hiked Mt Washington, this year we decided to take the cog rail train to the top. That was pretty cool. This train has a couple of world records, the one of them is that it has the steepest grade and trussed tracks at the highest elevation. So here are a few pictures from that ride.
View of Mt. Washington's Summit from the train station
One of the coal powered engines...we road on one that is powered with biodiesel
not much holding us together
steepest section of track...38% grade..wow!
View of Jefferson, Adams, Madison (left to right) from the top of Mt. Washington
Our smiling faces:)
On Monday we hiked to the top of Mt. Lafayette...one of the peaks we would have crossed had we stuck with our original backpacking plan.
The storm is coming straight for us, and it came fast. It was quite windy, rainy, and hailing as we climbed the last part to the peak.
Mt. Lafayette on far left after we were part way back down and the storm had cleared...go figure!
View of the ridge leading up to the top of Mt. Lafayette.
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