A group of nine hearty folks led by Tom Lawton hiked to Lucia’s Lookout, stopping at the Franklin Pierce Lead Mine along the way. This was a graphite mine operated in the nineteenth century by Benjamin Pierce and later owned by his son, U.S. President Franklin Pierce . “Lead” refers to pencil lead, one of the products made from graphite. Below is a photo of the group near the exit of the mine.
This is an 8-shot panorama. It is certainly far from the sharpest I have ever made. If you can click the image you will be taken to a site in a new tab where you can zoom in and use the mouse to pan around. You can also use the + and – keys to zoom and the arrow keys to scroll. Please wait for the resolution to download.
Two hours and 10 minutes after starting out, we reached Lucia’s Lookout, hiking three mostly uphill miles. Here is our group at Lucias.
Below is a short slide show of some of the other photos from this hike.
