. The White Mountains of New Hampshire : in the heart of the nation's playground . it, Mt. Washington only by physical conditions or weather or time. Different devoteesof mountain climbing have their different ways of doing it. Somemake it a rule to start before sunrise on their days expedition; othersprefer to delay till the cool of the afternoon. To mention but one of many enjoyable walking jaunts, it is possiblefor a party to leave Bretton Woods at 6 oclock in the morning, rideto the base of Mt. Pleasant, and then begin their climb to the reaching the summit of Mt. Washington o
. The White Mountains of New Hampshire : in the heart of the nation's playground . it, Mt. Washington only by physical conditions or weather or time. Different devoteesof mountain climbing have their different ways of doing it. Somemake it a rule to start before sunrise on their days expedition; othersprefer to delay till the cool of the afternoon. To mention but one of many enjoyable walking jaunts, it is possiblefor a party to leave Bretton Woods at 6 oclock in the morning, rideto the base of Mt. Pleasant, and then begin their climb to the reaching the summit of Mt. Washington over the fine trail,the crest of Mt. Jefferson may be negotiated by the Gulfsidetrail, the return being made by the Westside trail to Mt. Pleasant,thence down by the Franklin path, a total distance of about twenty-livemiles. A record-breaking trip, covering every peak of the PresidentialRange, was recently made by three men, a doctor, a lawyer and aminister, who tramped from Randolph to the Crawford House in alittle more than seven hours, starting shortly before 8 in the morning. Falls of Paradise, Lost River and reaching their destination about in the afternoon. Thesummits of Madison, Adams, Jefferson, Clay, Washington, Monroe,Franklin, Pleasant and Clinton were crossed and a stop of about halfan hour was made at the Tip-Top House on the summit of Mt. Wash-ington, where, with the blue Atlantic on one side of them and the Domin-ion of Canada on the other, they enjoyed lunch with the zest that isknown only to mountain-climbers. When all other forms of outdoor enjoyment are exhausted (ifsuch a thing could be possible in the Mountains), there still remainsthe historic pastime of fishing. The Saco and the Ammonoosuc andthe numerous brooks that enter them, not to mention the Pemigewasset,abound in brook trout, and afford hours, and even days, of royal are many summer sojourners here who find their chief recreationin whipping the trout brooks of the mountain region, a
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