The platforms could get a bit crowded
The landing
Mary on the cargo net
Art on the cargo net
Mary getting ready for the high wire
Art on the high wire
Art after final zip line
Selfie at the end
Sunday, September 14, 2014
Zipline Adventure
We joined about 20 new friends from the Meetup groups Global Gourmet and Dynamic Professionals at Empower Leadership Sports in Middletown, CT for a challenging and fun 3 hours of ziplining with two obstacles, both 60 feet or so off the ground - a vertical cargo net (which you climbed across) and a high wire (which you walked across while clinging to ropes hanging at about 7 foot intervals from a wire above) - between lines 3 and 4. Of course, we were buckled in the whole time. It was our first zipline experience and truly exhilarating. Many thanks to Carl Sanderson for the photos.
Art on the high wire
Art on the high wire
Saturday, September 6, 2014
AMC Hikes from Cardigan Lodge
Saturday, September 6 and Sunday, September 7, 2014
The Appalachian Mountain Club's Cardigan Lodge is a lovely small lodge with friendly helpful staff in the AMC Cardigan Reservation adjacent to the Cartridge Mountain State Park near Canaan, New Hampshire. A variety of hiking trails start near the front door.
Mary and I had the privilege of co-leading the weekend hikes with hike leader Barbara Beckerman. Co-leading fulfilled the final requirement for us to be AMC day hike leaders.
Saturday, we hiked toward a peak named Firescrew (3064'). We were only about 15 minutes from the peak when we decided to turn back due to a threatening thunderstorm but it was a great hike.
When the threat of the storm passed in the afternoon, we hiked to pretty waterfall - Welton Falls.
The Appalachian Mountain Club's Cardigan Lodge is a lovely small lodge with friendly helpful staff in the AMC Cardigan Reservation adjacent to the Cartridge Mountain State Park near Canaan, New Hampshire. A variety of hiking trails start near the front door.
Mary and I had the privilege of co-leading the weekend hikes with hike leader Barbara Beckerman. Co-leading fulfilled the final requirement for us to be AMC day hike leaders.
Saturday, we hiked toward a peak named Firescrew (3064'). We were only about 15 minutes from the peak when we decided to turn back due to a threatening thunderstorm but it was a great hike.
When the threat of the storm passed in the afternoon, we hiked to pretty waterfall - Welton Falls.
This was the biggest leech I've ever seen. It was caught by a boy at the falls. I posted a video to Instagram ArtCT.
We returned via the Back 80 trail a very easy but very pretty trail.
We returned to the lodge about 4:30 and it started to rain about 10 minutes later
On Sunday, a beautiful clear day, we hiked to Cardigan peak (3155') via the Manning, Holt and Clark trails and returned via the West Ridge, Ranger Cabin, South Ridge, Skyland, Vistamont, Holt and Manning trails which took us to South Peak (2864'), Rimrock (2860') and Orange Mtn (2684').
We bid our farewell to Cardigan about 4:00 pm.
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