THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, October 28, 2010
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Sharon on Liberty’s summit, looking back at Flume just a mile away.
New and old friends on the trail. Phyllis (read her Oct 11th
blog--www.smallfarmersbigchange. coop) the Equal Exchange chocolate lady joined Al of Jackson, NH and his friends hiking Liberty and Flume. Al completed the GRID, reaching the summit of all the NH 4,000 footers in every month of the year! Yes, that means climbing all 48 mountains 12 times.
her chocolate. I love the people we meet on the trail. We could not have
PATENAUDE from 26 Sarah, Sharon and yours truly on the densely tree covered
summit of Mount Waumbek (elev. 4,006 feet).
ter and jelly sandwiches before moving on. The hike between Lib-
erty and Flume is well traveled and it was a joy to stretch our legs out. We found a bounce in our step and this mile felt like the shortest mile. As we were nearing the Liberty’s summit we ran into a long line of hikers. We asked if they met Phyllis the choc- olate lady and indeed they had. She had joined the group of 22 hikers helping Al from Jackson, NH, cel- ebrate his completing the Grid (the ultimate 4,000 footer list—hiking all 48 mountains in each month of the year). After lots of laughter and introduc- tions she explained that they had invited her to summit Flume with them and hike down the Osseo Trail to Lincoln. They even threw in a tailgate party and a ride back to her car! She easily gave away all
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asked for a better day to be on the summit of Lib- erty (elev. 4,459 feet). We could see very far and the surrounding mountains
were clear and bright. I pointed out future peak bagging opportunities. Rachel encouraged Sha- ron and Sarah that they can easily climb all the forty-eight of the 4,000 footers. Hiking down the Liberty
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Springs Trail was very wet and muddy from the hun- dreds of feet that marched on it over the weekend. We were still meeting people making their way up the trail and several warned us about the brook cross- See PATENAUDE on 28
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