Humor along the Appalachian Trail
Humor along the Appalachian Trail in the White Mountains, New Hampshire USA.
A sign posted on the door of the "Privy" at the Beaver Brook Shelter makes it clear what not to do in this Privy. Not meant to be funny(I don’t think?) but usually gets a good laugh from hikers.
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Website Maintenance & Downtime – June 9
DOWNTIME ALERT:
Downtime is bad, but it needs to be done. ScenicNH.com will be receiving upgrades.
Date: 09 JUNE 2010
Duration: 2 hours
START: 10:00 PM EDT 09-JUN-2010
END: 12:01a AM EDT 10-JUN-2010
(US Eastern Daylight Time; GMT -04:00)
During the upgrade, ScenicNH.com’s archive will not be viewable, but the Photoblog will be.
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Memorial Day – Never Forget
Memorial Day – A day to remember the many men and women who never made it home.
Wave that American Flag this weekend!
Take a moment during your weekend to remember the heros of our country.
Enjoy your Memorial Day Weekend!
Pemigewasset Wilderness – Unattended Campfire
Sunday, I spent the day deep in the Pemigewasset Wilderness doing research and verifying information on the old East Branch & Lincoln Logging Railroad. It was a wonderful day, but what I stumbled upon caught me completely off guard.
As I worked my way along the East Branch of the Pemigewasset River (near Thoreau Falls / Wilderness Trail junction) I came across a campsite with a fire pit. This is pretty normal and I have found numerous campsites with fire pits, but what was different with this campsite is the FIRE was still going and the site was vacant!
I hesitated for a second thinking I walked into someone’s campsite, but after looking around it was clear they were gone. The camper / campers pulled the blanket of moss from the top of the boulder and stuffed it into and over the fire pit. They must have done this thinking it would put out the fire.
After pulling all the moss off the fire pit and throwing it into the river it was clear the embers were still burning! The rocks around the fire pit were so hot I couldn’t even touch them! I used one of my Sea to Summit bags as a bucket to put the fire out. I hung around for twenty or so minutes to make sure the fire was out.
The site looked to be of a soloists, but I could be wrong. It is pretty scary to think what the outcome could have been if I didn’t come across this campsite. This location is very deep in the Pemi and a fire would do major damage.
A few links on back-country camping & fire:
Click here to see what Smokey the Bear says about putting a fire out:
Click here for Back-country camping regulations in the Pemigewasset Wilderness
Better back-country ethics would be appreciated…..
Day Off
No hiking, no camera = no work today.
Cockermouth River – Groton, NH
As a working photographer I always have a backlog of images. Its endless!! My normal routine during any given month is to upload new images to a external hard drive (I refer to this hard drive as “Inbound”). New images stay on this hard drive until I process them. The process time varies, since I always have 3,000+ images on the “Inbound” hard drive waiting to be processed.
With a steady shooting schedule I am always adding new images to the “Inbound” hard drive. The images I shoot today usually do not get processed until next month, unless they are for a client, then they get pushed to the front. I am always asking myself if I will ever get caught up!
I thought I do something different this week and process some of the images I shot this week. Except for the trillium all images included in this post were photographed this week along the Cockermouth River in Groton, New Hampshire.
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