Snowshoe\Hike in NH

Last weekend, I took a couple of days off work. Mike and I headed up to our place in NH Thursday night, worked on some things in the condo on Friday, then were joined Friday night by Lisa and her dog, Harley, as well as Jessica and her dog, Bunsen. Saturday morning, Mike, aka the infamous breakfast chef, filled all of us with yummy food, then the gals and pups headed out for a snowshoeing trip.

We decided on a flat trail that is right off the Kankamangus Highway with a destination of Franconia Falls. We strapped on our snowshoes and headed off. However, we quickly realized that the extremely packed snow would be more quickly traversed by foot. So, the snowshoes came off and we continued.

It was a beautiful, "warm," sunny 40+ degree day and a great day to be outdoors. Pretty soon on the trail, we saw this small, snow melt waterfall.

Jessica, Kara and Bunsen

Lisa was our official photographer for the day. Obviously, no album is complete without a self portrait of the group.

Jessica, Kara, Lisa

Nice view from the trail

Preggo Kara barely fitting into her jacket

It was a long trek into the falls. We stopped a lot to enjoy the views and Jessica and Bunsen were taking some time out to train. This was only Bunsen's 2nd trek out "into the wild" and Jessica was tired of getting dragged along the trail. So, 3.5 miles and 2.5 hours later, we got to the falls. Given the long amount of time it took to get there, I was hoping for more impressive falls. They were pretty....still frozen and snow covered, but I had expected more.

Franconia Falls Harley and Lisa

The sun was starting it's path down out of the sky and the weather was getting a little cooler, so we picked the pace WAY up for our trip back.

Kara, Jess, snowshoes on packs, with pups

After a "quick" 1.5 hours, we were back at the car and ready to head home. Mike had a nice day of relaxing at the condo while we were out. After our 7 mile hike (and Mike's hard day of video games), we were all ready for a good, big dinner. So, we had one then had a mellow, but very nice night of movie watching.

After breakfast the next morning, we all headed to our homes. It was another great weekend spent with friends in the great outdoors.