. Outdoors in New England . includes a circuit of the entire lake on thecommodious steamer employed in this service, with the addedprivilege of getting a good dinner on board. This excursion isone of the most important features of summer life in OutdoorNew England. Leaving wimpling Winnipesaukee with the regret that thedeparting traveler invariably feels, the tourist soon finds himselfascending the picturesque defile of the Pemigewasset valley,threaded by another charming stream that was a favorite of theQuaker poets, and in the course of two or three hours is at hisdestination, which may be N
. Outdoors in New England . includes a circuit of the entire lake on thecommodious steamer employed in this service, with the addedprivilege of getting a good dinner on board. This excursion isone of the most important features of summer life in OutdoorNew England. Leaving wimpling Winnipesaukee with the regret that thedeparting traveler invariably feels, the tourist soon finds himselfascending the picturesque defile of the Pemigewasset valley,threaded by another charming stream that was a favorite of theQuaker poets, and in the course of two or three hours is at hisdestination, which may be North Woodstock, Profile House,Bethlehem, Fabyan, Bretton Woods, Crawfords, Jefferson, orany one of a dozen other noted tourist centers in the wonderfulWhite and Franconia mountain regions. Here he will spend a day, a week, a season, according tocircumstances. He might stay a lifetime, and yet not know theinmost secrets of the mountains. The very air that fills hislungs when he steps off the train will make a new man of him,. for it is new air and belongs to a world that is entirely differentfrom his world. What do they do in the mountains—the tourists, thehealth-seekers? Ah, what is it they do not do? They ride,they tramp, they golf, ascend Mt. Washington by the cog rail-way and descend by the carriage road; climb the surroundingpeaks like Swiss mountaineers, fish, play tennis, loaf on hotelverandas and mutely marvel at the sunsets; circle the greathills in motor-cars or tallyhos, visit the natural wonders of theregion, and wish that life could be all one long, sweet vaca-tion in the mountains. There are lakes, and streams, and cascades to hunt upand admire; profiles, echoes and other freaks of nature towonder at. The New Hampshire mountains, indeed, are asort of eastern Garden of the Gods, each newcomer findingsome additional marvel therein, and with Mt. Washingtonserving as its Pikes Peak. Of all the regions natural wonders, the greatest, themost awe-inspiring is the Crawfo
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