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Category Archives: Hike
Home from Nepal
A group of eight trekkers successfully made it over the 17,769 ft Thorung La (pass) earlier this month with lots of support from a great group of five sherpas and six porters, especially our leader, Chhongba Sherpa. We did the classic Annapurna Circuit in Nepal, circling the Annapurna mountain range from Besi Shar to Jomson with a side trip to the beautiful village of Marpha. Before retuning to Kathmandu we crossed the Phewa Tal (lake) to hike up to the World Peace Pagoda high above Pokhara.
Many more words and images from this wonderful trip will find their way onto this site over the coming months. Suffice it to say we had a very compatible group, a tiring but rewarding trek, and many marvelous shared experiences. Here we are at the Hotel Tibet in Kathmandu just before boarding the bus to Besi Shar. This photo was taken by Pasang Sherpa who also appears in the photo through the magic of Photoshop.
Snowshoe Hike down SRK Greenway Trail 10
Lee Carvalho led a group of 5 hikers down the SRK Greenway Trail 10 from near Winslow State Park in Wilmot to Proctor Academy in Andover. It was snowing when we started but by the end we saw some glimpses of sun. Lee is near the center of the photo below while Deb is photographic a pair who planned to head uphill toward Mount Kearsarge.
Before we entered the woods we passed Fieldstone Farm. A pair of horses retreated back to near the barn then watched us cautiously. If you click the image below you will be taken to a version of this photo that you can zoom in and explore in detail along with another panoramic image from the trip.
The woods were quiet. We passed cellar holes and the remains of fireplaces—one quite impressive. We hiked along snowmobile trails but only saw one—shortly after I commented that I was surprised we didn’t see any snowmobiles. We saw very little open water until we reached the Blackwater River. Below is a patch of water in a small stream surrounded by smooth mounds of snow.
Here is a slide show from the hike. Two of the images have been edited to simplify details like a painter might do. And the last shows blowing snow on the side of Kearsarge from a Proctor Academy field after the snow stopped.
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Tagged Andover, Kearsarge, Proctor Academy, Snow Shoe, SRK Greenway, SRKG, Wilmot
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Star Lake Farm & SRKG 4
Gerry Gold led a group of six dedicated snowshoers on hike through Star Lake Farm on a gorgeous winter day. Half of the trek was along SRK Greenway Tail 4. Star Lake Farm has been conserved under the auspices of the Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust. It is a large and beautiful piece of land.
If you click the image below you will be taken to a page of panoramic images that you can explore in detail. But don’t miss seeing the slide show that is below this image.
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Tagged Snow Shoe, Springfield, SRK Greenway, SRKG, Star Lake, Star Lake Farm
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Mill Road II
Jann and I returned to Mill Road in Lebanon yesterday for a short walk. What a difference a week made from our earlier visit. Winter is moving in and ice is forming on sticks and downed trees in the Mascoma River. Small streams flowing in are now mostly frozen over.
The water that splashes up onto partly-submerged logs and branches freezes and forms interesting patterns aided by the wind and gravity. Here are two examples, the second one rendered in grayscale. The very best grayscale conversions start as color images because one can then use the color information in the photo to control the distribution of tones in the image. However, if the original image has few colors, as did this one, the options are somewhat limited. Still some images seem to look better in black-and-white, and I felt this was one that did.
On our return trip Jann spotted an interesting formation just down the bank that we had missed earlier. Here is slide show with four version of the image. The first is basically a straight shot with somewhat increased saturation.The other three modified with a Photoshop plug-in filter a friend told me about recently.
