With rain eminent, we headed off to EMS and got some rain gear Friday night. One more step to being real hikers :-) Saturday we headed off for the White Ledge Campground in Albany. The White Ledge Loop Trail took off from the back of the campground. Last week we did Boulder Loop, northeast of Chocorua. White Ledge is southeast.
What a great trail! We manage to miss most of the rain, but the rain gear came in handy nonetheless.
An intermittent stream near the trailhead. Definitely there Saturday after the rain:
This is not an intermittent stream. This is water gushing down the ledge trail! (And some rain on the lens.) There were several spots where we actually had to stop and think about how we were going to get from point A to point B. That was a first for us. And fun.
Near the top of the ledge. This is a lot steeper than it looks!
The view from the top of the ledge (the opposite viewpoint from the previous picture).
Muh checking out the GPS looking for the White Ledge cache. (Note the purdy rain shell.)
On the return trip the look eastward over Iona Lake (left) and Whitton Pond hiding behind Whitton Ledge.
Two hours up. One hour down. Just a little over 4 miles and 1400' vertical.
We stopped a few miles down Route 16 and found the Albany Moose Lookout Cache. Here's a big cache of moose to look out for that we found near the cache.
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