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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