The house we stayed in was just outside Franconia Notch State Park and the White Mountains Nat'l Park. The area is so full of trails, waterfalls, rivers, swimming holes, etc. you could never do it all. One day we did The Flume Gorge because we were looking for a short hike. Surprise -- it was 2 miles long! But beautiful. This was table rock, a smooth rock "hill" that the water just glides over..
This is where we started getting into the gorge -the air got colder and the walls were getting higher.
Walking further into the Flume - tons of waterspray, and water dripping from the rock walls above you
This is looking up at the ruck walls of the Flume. I loved how there was so much greenery growing on the walls.Beautiful
Avalanche Falls at the end of the Flume.
We found a bear cave to explore
and just took in the beautiful, green, lush scenery
Savannah and I went into the Wolf's Den, which is a tunnel. Our friends walked around to meet us at the other side. It took us a while. Smack dab in the middle of the very tight tunnel, the girl in front of us got scared and wouldnt' move. But...we finally made it out!
We also had dinner out at Lovett's Inn one night -- about 15 of us -- to celebrate Nate & Ang's anniversary (we were at their wedding there 3 years ago). After dinner, I snapped this shot of them on the stonewall. Then, Gage said he had to pee, I pulled him off the wall, and a rock came with him and fell on my foot, spraying blood everywhere, causing Savannah to freak out, causing Mommy to tell everyone to remain calm while I tried to fix my foot up with diaper wipes and kid bandaids, while Gage pulled his pants down to pee, got "it" stuck in his shorts, and started peeing straight up in the air, which Mommy tried to help with on one foot while trying to stop the bleeding. Wow. It was one of those moments. Thankfully, my foot is not broken!
This is just some of the scenery around Franconia
We also stopped by a few swimming holes to play and splash
We may have chained Adam to a tree. Surely he deserved it!
Although whining to be carried many times on the 1 3/4 mile way in, he did the whole hike by himself on the way out. Probably only because I reminded him 100 times that if he walked all the way he could get any ice cream he wanted at the shop on teh way home
Giving up before we made it to Bridle Veil Falls (we still had a along way to go, we stopped to splash in this VERY cold mountain brook). Brrrrr....I think Gage is turning into a popsicle here!
Another day we went to the Basin, and saw these beautiful stepped falls, along with the beautiful basin that's 33 feet around and 15 feet deep.
