"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into& above the clouds.."-E.Abbey

Starting the summer off with a bang; or in my case with a Zip-Line.


The weather is really starting to feel like summer and I am loving it! Haven’t done too much since finishing my freshman year besides starting my new job at Best Buy in Taunton and taking a summer accounting class which I’ll be done with next week. So to really kick off the summer, Dan and I ended up in Lincoln, NH on Friday the 13th to continue our thrill seeking adventures at the Alpine Adventures' Zip-line Canopy Tours. We were on a 1700' hilltop on the edge of Barron Mountain. There were 7 zip-lines that totaled over 3500 feet and the lines were in trees from 15 feet to 65 feet high. Talk about an ADRENELINE RUSH. Out of the 10 people who came on the tour Dan and I of course went first and it was amazing! I went first on the first line and it was pretty scary looking down from 65 feet in the air! We went over 40 mph too! Even though it was pricy the money was totally worth it, it’s almost too hard to describe it, so I would totally recommend it to everyone! The only thing I’m mad about was that I thought we couldn’t bring cameras but it ended up that we could have so I have no pictures of us actually zip lining or of us in all our gear. They are making a new course which is going to be opening up in July and I want to go back again! They do the zip-lines all year round so I’m thinking next time Ill go in the winter.

Since we were 3 hours away from home we stayed the night at The Lodge right in downtown Lincoln. We decided to go this weekend because this was the last “Quiet” Weekend and after this week prices for the hotels jumped up about $45 so we saved some money there! Our hotel was awesome, it was simple and it’s all that we really needed. We overlooked the White Mountains and had the Pemigewasset River flowing right next to the hotel! It was an awesome and such a natural view. We had the windows open and the breeze at night was perfect and so peaceful with the sound of the river putting us to sleep.

We were done with the zip line by about noon time so we still had the entire day ahead of us. It was such gorgeous weather so we wanted to take advantage of it! We ended up at the Flume Gorge in Franconia Notch State Park and we got a package deal with that to ride up on Cannon Mountain on the Aerial Tramway. The Flume Gorge was beautiful! It was the perfect time of year to go because all of the run off from the snow kept everything flowing at a good speed. After we went through the Gorge we headed over to Cannon Mountain for the Tramway, and let me tell you, the views were absolutely breath-taking. They said that the sky was so clear and its very rare during the warmer months to be able to see such distances. We even saw Canada in the distance! The only other times where the visibility is that good is in the middle of winter when its 20 below or at least that what the Tram guy said.

Saturday we woke up late and ate at a delicious all day breakfast place called the Longhorn. It was so calm and relaxing! We ate our breakfast while overlooking another section of the Penigewasset River which was amazing and I just cant say it enough how relaxing it was. After breakfast we ended up at a section of the river where you can swim in and stuff. We ended up staying there for a few hours and swam and the water was FRIGID! It was really cool though because the current from the river eroded the rocks down so there were natural slides down the river which was different. We went on them but it was ice cold, and I initially didn’t want to go in, I slipped on a rock and just slid right it up to my neck! Haha. Cool…literally. After we froze ourselves we ended up at Clark’s Trading Post…but only to buy a drink and fudge, we didn’t see the bears or ride the train or anything. Overall our little mini-vacation get away was so worth it. I absolutely loved it and Dan and I both took advantage of the scenery and all the natural stuff that NH had to offer.