forestgnome
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This swamp caught my eye on the old USGS map long ago and I finally got to take a hike and search for it.
I got a GPS last year as a gift and I still don't know how to use it because my first attempt to learn it was unsuccessfull and I haven't sufficient desire to get beyond. I admit intellectual laziness with that which bores me. If it was a new camera I'd voraciously gobble the entire manual in hours.
Anyway, I wiffed on finding the swamp, although I do beleive I skirted the north edge of it.
I took the Brook Trail up the mountain.
morning sun peaking through the canopy of a nice hemlock stand...
This was my first hike on this trail and the first open ledges offer a nice view...
Mountain ash berries are now big and ripe. This is a special tree because my family name, LaFreniere, is Franco for "mountain ash".
silverling in bloom ( in a spot somwhere along the way between the southern ledges of Chocorua summit and Little Sister summit
)...
The first leg of the bushwack down the ridge was tough but the thick spruce/fir eventually gives way to a magical mixed forest with birch and hobblebush and moose maple.
I never found the heart of the swamp but I do think I hit the northern edge. I took too long to get there and I didn't have time to explore further but I really like the area and I'll be back when I have more time later this autumn.
Here's an interesting spot with extra heavy moose traffic.
On the way down to the Bolles Trail I happened upon a porcupine. Being a dog person and a moose shed antler hunter, I'm not a huge fan. They are resident creatures and I love them all, but porkies can be trouble.
dog-quillin', shed antler-chewin' varmint!
happy trails
I got a GPS last year as a gift and I still don't know how to use it because my first attempt to learn it was unsuccessfull and I haven't sufficient desire to get beyond. I admit intellectual laziness with that which bores me. If it was a new camera I'd voraciously gobble the entire manual in hours.
Anyway, I wiffed on finding the swamp, although I do beleive I skirted the north edge of it.
I took the Brook Trail up the mountain.
morning sun peaking through the canopy of a nice hemlock stand...
This was my first hike on this trail and the first open ledges offer a nice view...
Mountain ash berries are now big and ripe. This is a special tree because my family name, LaFreniere, is Franco for "mountain ash".
silverling in bloom ( in a spot somwhere along the way between the southern ledges of Chocorua summit and Little Sister summit
)...
The first leg of the bushwack down the ridge was tough but the thick spruce/fir eventually gives way to a magical mixed forest with birch and hobblebush and moose maple.
I never found the heart of the swamp but I do think I hit the northern edge. I took too long to get there and I didn't have time to explore further but I really like the area and I'll be back when I have more time later this autumn.
Here's an interesting spot with extra heavy moose traffic.
On the way down to the Bolles Trail I happened upon a porcupine. Being a dog person and a moose shed antler hunter, I'm not a huge fan. They are resident creatures and I love them all, but porkies can be trouble.
dog-quillin', shed antler-chewin' varmint!
happy trails
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