Thursday, August 20, 2015
We are so glad we switched our days to do things, as today involved a little hiking and we appreciated the lower temps.  We did an easy rails to trails hike in Lincoln Woods, and it was along the river, so it was beautiful.  From there we went north of North Woodstock to Franconia Notch and hiked The Flume.  It is definitely a highly marketed scenic thing to do, and it cost us $16.00 each.  We didn't think it was any nicer than Watkin's Glen in NY, that we had done earlier for free!  We are still glad we did it, and we also got a few caches on our two hikes. We met a lot of very friendly people along The Flume Trail. We leave for Vermont tomorrow morning, and we are ready to go. We've exhausted all that we care to do here, and we did fall in love with New Hampshire!  The White Mountains are just wonderful. I can't imagine how gorgeous it is here when the trees turn color.

The suspension bridge over a very rocky river to get us to the Lincoln Woods Trail.  It definitely had a sway.

This sign explains what the Flume is better than I can.  It was another gorge and hiking trail that we enjoyed.

                                                     One part of the high falls at the Flume. 

We watched the video at the visitor center and they had a segment on the Man on the Mountain.  It was glacier rock that formed the face of an old man, and had great prominence in the state.  They even had a postage stamp with the Man on the Mountain. The 'structure' was 40 feet tall and 25 feet wide.  In 2003, the rock fell away from erosion and it no longer looks like a man's face.  People were so saddened by losing this old man, and many got sentimental about it.  I'm amazed that my picture turned out so well, as I took it from the video.

I hope you can read this plaque okay, but we thought it was interesting in that they were the first people to ever admit that they had an encounter with aliens.