From September 5 to 12, my friend Xiaoman and I trudged the most rugged and elevated section of Appalachian Trail: White Mountain, New Hampshire.
We did it again - Xiaoman and I on the trail.
The mountains
The rocks
The trail
On the trail - 1
On the trail - 2
On the trail - 3
On the trail - 4
There were not many places on the trail that they could put a sign like this
All we could do was follow the cairns and they are easy to miss considering you are seaching for a pile of rocks on a rocky backgound
Follow the cairns - 2
Cairns on the Presidential ridge
Mount Washington is the highest peak in north east America. It's famous for bad weather. But the day we were on top of it, the visibility was 110 miles (it was 1/10 of a mile when I visited it last year). A week later after I came back to Pitt*****urgh, there was a car parked next to mine had a bumper sticker says "This car drove to the top of Mt. Washington". As I was reading it, the owner of the car said "how about that?" proudly. I looked at him, pointed to my feet and said "these feet walked to the top of Mt. Washington, twice. How about that?"
It's great to be on the top - at the top of Mount Jefferson
At the top of Mount Adams
At the top of Mount Madison - 1
At the top of Mount Madison - 2
Coming down from a mountain is harder than climbing it
The morning of the mountains - 1
The morning of the mountains - 2
The morning of the mountains - 3
Mountains during the day - 1
Mountains during the day - 2
The evening sky of the mountains - 1
The evening sky of the mountains - 2
Moose are the largest mammal of North America (a male moose can be up to 1400 lb. and a female one can be up to 900 lb.). It is the dearest wish of many hikers to see one. Amazingly, we saw two moose right on our trail, a mother and a baby. Xiaoman even got a gentle touch by the mother moose (the moose kicked/touched her in her chest). Now she is one of the few moose attach survivors.
What we did this time was called hut-to-hut hiking. AMC (Appalachian Mountain Club) has 9 huts along the White
Mountain section of AT. The huts are not accessible by cars. We hiked through 6 of them. The huts provided us bunker
beds, full course of dinner and breakfast. All we needed to carry were cloths and lunches. Hut crews are mostly made of college kids. They carry all the food up to the high mountain; cook them and server to us. They are amazing young men and women. This is one of the huts we stayed.
Our hiking track and profile
We did it again - Xiaoman and I on the trail.
The mountains
The rocks
The trail
On the trail - 1
On the trail - 2
On the trail - 3
On the trail - 4
There were not many places on the trail that they could put a sign like this
All we could do was follow the cairns and they are easy to miss considering you are seaching for a pile of rocks on a rocky backgound
Follow the cairns - 2
Cairns on the Presidential ridge
Mount Washington is the highest peak in north east America. It's famous for bad weather. But the day we were on top of it, the visibility was 110 miles (it was 1/10 of a mile when I visited it last year). A week later after I came back to Pitt*****urgh, there was a car parked next to mine had a bumper sticker says "This car drove to the top of Mt. Washington". As I was reading it, the owner of the car said "how about that?" proudly. I looked at him, pointed to my feet and said "these feet walked to the top of Mt. Washington, twice. How about that?"
It's great to be on the top - at the top of Mount Jefferson
At the top of Mount Adams
At the top of Mount Madison - 1
At the top of Mount Madison - 2
Coming down from a mountain is harder than climbing it
The morning of the mountains - 1
The morning of the mountains - 2
The morning of the mountains - 3
Mountains during the day - 1
Mountains during the day - 2
The evening sky of the mountains - 1
The evening sky of the mountains - 2
Moose are the largest mammal of North America (a male moose can be up to 1400 lb. and a female one can be up to 900 lb.). It is the dearest wish of many hikers to see one. Amazingly, we saw two moose right on our trail, a mother and a baby. Xiaoman even got a gentle touch by the mother moose (the moose kicked/touched her in her chest). Now she is one of the few moose attach survivors.
What we did this time was called hut-to-hut hiking. AMC (Appalachian Mountain Club) has 9 huts along the White
Mountain section of AT. The huts are not accessible by cars. We hiked through 6 of them. The huts provided us bunker
beds, full course of dinner and breakfast. All we needed to carry were cloths and lunches. Hut crews are mostly made of college kids. They carry all the food up to the high mountain; cook them and server to us. They are amazing young men and women. This is one of the huts we stayed.
Our hiking track and profile
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