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After
my second climb up Mt Lafayette, I took a short rest and a couple
of pictures. Despite the camera incident, the views from the ridge
were great, although I had expected the ridge to be a bit narrower
than it turned out to be. I enjoyed looking down the dropoffs
to the east and the ravines on the west. I saw what appeared to
be two slides on the southeast side of Mt Lafayette.
Some
of the trail signs on top of Mt Lafayette were faded, so I couldn’t
tell which trail was the Greenleaf Trail. But I could see
Greenleaf Hut off in the distance, so I took the trail that
seemed to head in that direction.
I
had to be careful going down. There were some steep slippery spots,
and I was getting tired, but I made it down okay. I stopped to
take a picture of Eagle Lake, then rested on the benches at Greenleaf
Hut and watched the birds for a while.
Unfortunately,
I drank the last of my water at the hut, so I was very thirsty
and dry by the time I reached the bottom. On the way down, I looked
out over the ravine and saw Shining Rock in the distance. After
I got back to the car, the first thing I did before heading home
was to stop at the store and buy a soda. |
Looking
northeast from the Franconia Ridge Trail. Mt Washington is the
snowy peak in the distance, and you can see the slides on the
southeast face of Mt Lafayette in the left foreground. |
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Mt
Lafayette summit signs. From here, the Greenleaf Trail descends
west to Greeleaf Hut, the Garfield Ridge Trail heads northeast
to Mt Garfield and Galehead Hut, and the Franconia Ridge Trail
goes south to Mts Lincoln, Little Haystack, Liberty, and Flume. |
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