Tony and I had already hiked Mt. Tecumseh back in the fall with Gina. So why did we do it again? Well our goal is to hike all the 48 in the one summer, and we had a wicked long hike planned for Sunday so we needed something short. Tecumseh is short, but unfortunately it's a long ways away from us so we needed a full day.
So Saturday we headed out there and luckily it wasn't raining when we started.The trailhead was right at the parking lot of Wateville Valley Ski resort, which we'd rode at a couple of times. Anyway, a few minutes into the hike we got a little turned around because the trail we were on lead us right onto the ski trail. We looked around for a different trail but decided it didn't matter because we knew the trail would intersect with the ski run a little further up. (in the fall we had a break on the ski trail because it's a good viewpoint). So Tony and I decided to just hike up the ski trail, pretty steep but it was short and in no time we were back on the regular hiking trail. This part of the trail was a straight, steep shot to the summit. We remembered it well and knew we just needed to bust it out.
I of course got into my zombie mode and Tony had a mission to just get this part done so he crushed it. Once to the top we shared a bagel and peaced out because of course it was quite buggy. And we wanted to get down to go enjoy the Laconia Bike Festival.
On the way down we did the trail the entire way. About .5 mile away from the car a thunderstorm started to roll in. It's so amazing how the trees create this canopy and do'nt let any rain come through. We could see the rain when there were clearings and definitely could hear the thunder but we barely got dripped on. Either way, we were glad to get to the car even if we weren't getting wet.
The hike took us 3 hours, much slower than we were thinking. We hiked 5 miles with elevation gain of 2300 feet.
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