USA 2014 - D5 NH Franconia

Miche keeping her distance from the Swift River after reading the board describing the 1942 near-fatal tale of strong swimmer Dorothy Sparks...

Me again...

Reddening leaves and the Swift River...

Covered bridge over the Pemigewasset River...

Miche & a covered bridge...

At the entrance to Flume Gorge...

Miche checking for bears...

Covered walkway over Flume Gorge...

Miche and one of many rock hugging tree roots that we saw...

The Basin...

New England Ski Museum at Cannon Mountain

Miche and an old snowmobile...

Bode Miller's Olympic medals...

and World Cup trophies...

Early snowboards...

The Old Man of the Mountain

This rock feature had stood for centuries, but collapsed in May 2010...

Miche looking up at where the Old Man used to be, but where they have set up a method of reconstructing the view..

How he collapsed...

What was left after the rockfall...

Reconstructed view of what it would have looked like...

New Hampshire

Day 5 - 22nd September 2014