Today’s Miles: 38
Total: 1,959
We have been really lucking out with getting motels or
cabins on the right days. Last night, in
the middle of the night, it really rained. In fact, when we got up it was very
cloudy still but did not rain on us all day.
It was a cool day and we ended up riding in some fog, but didn’t see
much of the sun.
We had to go get some breakfast before we took off and
after 3 or so miles of downhill, we had to climb the highest mountain of the
trip. It is called the Kancamagus
Notch. It was a 2,500 foot climb. I was
really worried about it, but it was engineered very well. It was probably a 6% grade all the way
up. That makes it so it does take time,
but you can move at 5 or 6 mph and it doesn’t kill you to do so. It took probably 2.5 hours to climb which
included a couple 10 minute rest stops. I
was very relieved it turned out so well.
View from on top. 😒
Our group. Dave is the one on the left. We will end the tour at his house in Maine.
There were clouds hanging around the mountain all the way
up and most of the way down. We were a
little disappointed about that. When we
got to the top, we were hoping to have a great view of everything around, but
all we saw was fog.
Coming down the other side, we were rewarded with some
great views of the trees and mountains.
I will include some pictures, but it really doesn’t show the colors like
you see them in person. There are a lot
of what they call “peepers” out today.
They are the tourists looking at the fall colors. Lots of cars and buses of people today.
Some beautiful sights, right?
We are in Conway, NH tonight staying at a hostel. This is the first hostel experience of the
trip. We are lucky enough that we only have one more in the room than the four
of us. It is a nice clean place as far as hostels go. We had a nice Mexican dinner tonight and it
is supposed to rain again tonight, so we are lucky to be inside. In fact, since we will be at Dave’s house
tomorrow, our camping days are done.
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