June 27, 2011
So Tony and I drove out to Ohio over the weekend of June 25th for Grandpa Bart's funeral. We were very happy we had the opportunity to attend the funeral, go to my cousin Kim's wedding and spend our one year anniversary at Cedar Point. But going away for the weekend means missing out on hiking and we were super bummed to have to miss a hike so early on. We were supposed to hike Canon and the Kinsmans. But we knew it was more important to go to Ohio.
Well we got almost half the drive done on Sunday evening so then Monday we only had 7 hours of driving. We decided to suck it up and leave super early and get into New Hampshire in time to get a hike in. We figured Moosilauke would be a good one because it was a shorter hike but pretty far from North Conway, and it was basically on our way from Ohio home. So we got to the trailhead about 3pm and got on our way.
We had actually already done this trail in the fall with Gina and it took us 5 or 6 hours. Book time is about 5 hours so we hoped to be done in 4. We took the George Brook Trail up and it was so much easier than we remembered! It would start to get a little steep and tiring and then flatten out just in time so you never felt like you had to stop. It was great.
And the summit of Moosilauke is very gorgeous when it's a clear day. You have a great panorama of the mountains all around you. The last .5 mile or so is above the trees.
It took us 1 hour and 36 minutes to get to the summit and we were quite happy with that. We saw a few thru hikers at the summit because the AT goes through there. The hike down was pretty uneventful, but quick so that was nice. The entire hike took us 3 hours and 11 minutes. It was 2295 feet elevation gain and 7.9 miles.
And we were super excited to get at least one hike in that weekend!
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