Saturday, August 15, 2009

Leaving in 5

Very warm and hazy today.

Going on the shuttle is a father and daughter doing a hut-to-hut from Franconia Notch (Greenleaf hut first back to Highland center). I thought the girl was 14 or 15 - it turns out she is starting her 2nd year of college...way off. They have been doing this every year for a while. I wish my father had done even one thing alone with me in all the years I was growing up.

No one is going up Garfield, so I am going up the Gale River Trail with Keith and Charles, who are eventually going up past Mt Washington.

Charles and Keith are two friends who met at a dot-com many years ago. Since then Keith lives in the south and Charles near Boston. They get together every year to hike some of the Appalachian trail. One year they did a marathon together. They have a neat friendship that has lasted over these years with bonding by these yearly adventures.

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