Adventures with Job & Steve Holt

Last Saturday I embarked on another hiking adventure with my trusty car. Our destination? Holt's Ledge (Steve Holt!) This relatively easy hike commences just 15 minutes away from my house, right outside of Lyme, NH. It is also part of the Appalachian Trail...pretty sweet. The coolest part was, of course, the view from the ledge. Here are some shots:

Job: 12 years young. Faithful amidst years of tribulations...mostly when Ben was at the wheel.

Cool rock.

This is the view from where the trail comes to an end.

On an unrelated note, this final photo goes out to Lindsey Craft and Amanda Lake. I made fried chicken and mashed potatoes and it was pretty darn delicious. Word.

Adventures with Job

After taking care of some important things this morning (sleeping in until 10, buying car insurance, calling Delta, sweeping, etc.) I took Job on an adventure to Mount Cardigan (elevation 3,121 feet). This lovely mountain (hill, in Utah terms) is only 25 miles from Hanover, just past Lebanon and Canaan (it's like I live in Bible Land).

Hiking a mountain in New Hampshire is like hiking a mountain in Utah, except for the oppressive humidity and lack of substantial elevation change (pretty sure I should not have exuded as much as sweat as I did). The hike was beautiful and the summit afforded some amazing views of the Upper Valley, stretching clear to the White Mountains (sounds made up, but it's not). Here are some pics:

For your information, Mount Cardigan was named when a newly-arrived-to-Canaan New Hampshirite woke up one morning (June 16th, 1897), looked eastward out his window and noticed this beautiful mountain. He then looked down at himself, noticed the maroon cardigan he was wearing, looked back up at the mountain, and loudly (and proudly) declared, "It shall be called...Mount Cardigan!"

The End.