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Mts Flume & Liberty - 22 april 2004

A loop up the Flume Slide trail, along the ridge to Mt Liberty, and down the Liberty Spring trail.
Cloudy & very humid, not great for views or photography.
Surprisingly, plenty of snow and ice left on the trails. Steep and slow going - took me ten minutes more than book time.
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you should see an image here The whitehouse trail runs parallel to the river (and, annoyingly, to the highway).
you should see an image here Once the Flume Slide trail starts gaining altitude, traces of snow appear in the shade of the spruces and firs.
you should see an image here As the climb gets steeper, the snow gets deeper.
you should see an image here After inching up some nerve-wrackingly wet and icy boulders (not pictured - my hands were busy), this is where I finally decided to put on my crampons.
you should see an image here Only to have to remove them five minutes later when the trail became bare rock again. (note: most of the trail was not nearly this dry)
you should see an image here Then I put them back on to help climb the packed snow up to the summit of Mt Flume.
you should see an image here First glimpse of Mt Liberty.
you should see an image here An overlook just below the summit of Mt Flume (the crampons came off and stayed off).
you should see an image here View north to Little Haystack.
you should see an image here I had assumed the Flume Slide Trail would come up this rockslide. It doesn't.
you should see an image here View south to Loon Mountain ski area from the summit of Mt Flume.
you should see an image here View north to Little Haystack and Mt Lincoln from the summit of Mt Liberty.
you should see an image here View north/northeast: that's probably Mt Garfield.
you should see an image here view back to Mt Flume (southeast)
you should see an image here view northwest: from right, Cannon Mountain, the Cannon Balls, North Kinsman, South Kinsman
you should see an image here Another view northward.
you should see an image here The summit of Mt Liberty, from just to the north.
you should see an image here After returning to the trailhead, I walked around the Flume Gorge. This boulder was pretty impressive.
you should see an image here The covered bridge in the Flume Gorge.
you should see an image here View from the bridge.
you should see an image here Interior of the bridge.
you should see an image here The bridge with Mt Liberty in the background.