Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Mt. Monroe August 17, 2004

We began our summer on the historic Crawford Path and today as our summer winds down we took perhaps our last hike of the summer on another section of the Crawford Path.

We hiked up Edmands Path to meet the Crawford path and then took a spectacular out and back 2-mile ridge walk to the summit of Monroe passing Franklin and Little Monroe along the way.

After hiking up Edmands completely in the clouds the clouds lifted just as we reached tree line. The summer has been a wet one and the greens of the mountains are especially vibrant this year. I mention this because our digital camera woes continue unabated. Our HP, which we finally kept, is no better than the Canon and Kodak we sent back. None can come close to our 2 year old Kodak that died on us. None of our cameras this summer came close to capturing the beauty that we saw.

Distance: 9.5 miles Climb: 3500 ft. Elevation: 5372 ft.

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