Crawford Notch Campground in Harts Location, NH
The Stay at Zeeland Falls Hut has been great. Today we were treated to a very nice breakfast and more good conversation with the friendly Canadian couple. The trail was also very agreeable being the easiest we had seen in all the Whites. It was yet another beautiful. What more could ask for?
Well the sights could start just down the hill from the hut at Zealand Falls. It was a wonderful display of water flowing though retangular blocks of stone that taken together looked kind of like and art deco sculpture. From the hut we got on the Ethan Pond Trail. The remarkable thing about this trail was that it is built on a old logging railroad bed. As a result it was a dream to walk on and Big Muddy and I spent most of our time admeiring the view. There was a pond to our left in a region of blocky boulders with tanic yellow/brown water. We could see Zealand Mountain and Franconia Ridge too.
We passed Throu Falls and there was another sight to be seen. The river alternated between wide flat rock and bolder fields. The water in turn went from smooth wide sheets to rapid slots of turbulance.
We took a luch break at Ethan Pond which was a worthy break as the pond was lovely as well as the frog swiming near its shore.
After that it was a easy walk the rest of the way to the road by 1PM.
The campground where we are spending the night is 3 miles off trail and took us about an hour to get there.
While we waited for our hitch nearly 10 southbounders passed through. It looks like the rush has started back up!
One last of good news, I am pleased to annouce that Dana sucessfuly defended her disertation. She is now a Dr!
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